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| Billie Silvey |
| October 2007 |
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| An eclectic website about Women, Christianity, History, Culture and the Arts--and anything else that comes to mind. |
| The 40s |
| It was the decade of World War II, of big bands and rationing. It was a time of larger-than-life leaders--Roosevelt, Hitler and Churchill. |
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| People cried over Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca, danced into the night, and sang of “bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover tomorrow when the world is free.” |
| But even as we worked and fought and dreamed and sang of freedom, we rounded up Japanese Americans into internment camps, confiscating their belongings. For like most times, the 1940s was a time that saw the best and worst of human beings. In this issue of the website, I’ll be writing about some major events of the 40s, a young couple in love, and some of the moral dilemmas of the age that still haunt us today. I hope you’ll write me at b.silvey@sbcglobal.com and share your family stories of the period. |
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| It was an era when more women left home for the work world than ever before and then were made to feel guilty about it when the men returned from war and wanted their jobs back. |