And still had your full ration of hair? lol

I remember Ken Burns saying months ago, while he was still editing material for the film, that the main thing he saw different today from then was how the "Home Front" mentality prevailed during WWII. Over a decade had passed from V-J day to the day I was born, so the War was not even the latest entry into the history books at school for me...but as I grew & learned, I caught many glimpses into how that time had left its mark on the family that raised me. My mother had many pics of herself & others from that time, & I see in them a beautiful young woman, in her prime & with flaming red hair that surely broke some hearts, trying to find a life for herself, but there's a barely concealed anguish in her eyes, knowing that she dare not get too close, too deeply in love, with these dashing young men in their uniforms...the knowledge that they could go & never come back seems like a barrier to everything she may have wanted in life.

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