If you look closely, you can find one guy.
Don't you know there's a war on?
I'm the one with the high and lopsided example of the hairstyle we called the pompadour. As I recall, I gave it up right after I saw this picture.
Friday, February 21, 2014
Don't you know there's a war on?
That was the standard retort to most any complaint in the early 1940s . It's true the continental U.S. wasn't attacked, but just the same, we had a pretty total war here on the Home Front. As it happens, I've never found a novel or a movie that talks about that aspect of World War II -- wartime life at home. But for instance -- last week before I eighty-sixed my '44 Syracuse yearbook, I tore out a page showing some of the University's freshman class.
If you look closely, you can find one guy.
Don't you know there's a war on?
If you look closely, you can find one guy.
Don't you know there's a war on?
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OK, who was the luck guy, and which girl is the one with the lopsided pompadour?
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure how lucky he was -- his draft classification must have been 4-F, which means pretty handicapped. As you can see, all the other boys are gone, most of headed overseas at this point. The other possibility is that he is very bright and managed to get out of high school at 16 so he could get in a year or two of college before being drafted, but he looks older than that.
ReplyDeleteSecond row up, third one in from the left.
OK, I picked you correctly. But, Edith, you threw out your yearbook?? I adore everyone's yearbooks except my own. Don't do things like that again without emailing me.
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