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INTERVIEW SUBJECT: Virginia Link (My grandmother) 1. What did you do to contribute to the war effort?** I knitted afghan squares for blankets and collected milkweed pos so the silk in them could be used to make parachutes. Because of rationing, life was lived by using less gas, less sugar, less coffee, and less meat. They put up blackout shades at the windows so planes couldn't see any lights. We stayed at home and walked to a lot of places. We ate a lot of the vegetables lamb, pork from pigs, and beef from steers that my father raised. The wild celebrations when the war was over. Like it was yesterday, we were at the dining room table with about 10 kids playing our favorite game, Michigan. My parents were napping upstairs with the radio on. They came downstairs and announced that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor and there were many casualties. I was scared, as was everyone else. I was 9 and didn't really know what it meant, but I knew it wasn't good **. 6.Were there any food shortages, and how did they affect you?** You definitely had to be friendly with the man who owned your neighborhood store, or he might tell you he was out of the rationed food. There were no supermarkets then. We had our own gas tank because I lived on a farm, but the amount the truck could deliver was limited. Flour might also have been rationed, because we had a few bags stored in the attic. We were so glad the war might soon end because there were so many casualties. When we went to the movies we saw the newsreels of all the devastation. It was so frightening but - the war might end soon
 * TOPIC: Life on the home front during WWII
 * 2. What did your parents do to contribute to the war effort?**
 * 3. During the war what factors in your life changed the most?**
 * 4. Do you have any stories of any significance from the war?**
 * 5. Do you remember where you were when you heard about Pearl Harbor?**
 * 7. What did you think about the dropping of the atomic bomb?**