I received an e-mail showing some war posters from the WWII era. I am a post war baby (1947)so I remember hearing about victory gardens, ration stamps, blackout curtains, military mail being censored. My mother worked in a defense factory and every relative who could not go to war because of health, age or gender did something to help the war effort. I forwarded the e-mail and I received a number of stories back from friends who had remembrances from that time and started to think about how today's children won't ever know about the personal stories of the people at that time. I am so grateful that I am old enough to have that perspective and have decided to save these stories for my grandchildren. I realize we live in a different culture now and our enemies are from a different culture. I also realize that war is very different now, but everyone can learn something from the people who stood strong and I am trying to collect as many personal, brief stories as I can get. The Greatest Generation was a tremendous book, but it told stories of people who are known or who have had some notoriety ie: congressional medal of honour winners. I am looking for personal recollections from average people holding together during a difficult and challenging time. Something more personal than the history books tell. I am going to post some of the stories I have received and hope some of you will share yours. Most gratefully, Agathamae