Posted on Mar 29, 2016
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March 29, 1943: In the US, rationing of meat, butter, and cheese is added to the list of already rationed products. The price of war is difficult to calculate. What price, what cost, what sacrifice is too great? During Word War Two there was a different perspective both to that war and to the costs people were willing to pay. http://www.bradford-delong.com/2013/03/liveblogging-world-war-ii-march-29-1943.html http://www.sarahsundin.com/make-it-do-rationing-of-fats-oils-in-world-war-ii-2/
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This is one of the huge differences between the wars of yesteryear and today. Every citizen was touched by those wars, physically. Today very few people are personally affected by our wars. Without a personal impact war is not real.
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SGT John " Mac " McConnell
So True SFC Wade W. These days is instant gratification..Thanks for sharing.
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Tucked away in a drawer at home, I found a ration book leftover from WWII when I was a young boy. My mother laughed when she saw it and told me about rationing. My father was always a sugar-holic and my mother was half convinced that he wanted another child so that he could get more sugar. I was born in 1943 and didn't need my allotment of sugar until after the war. My father used it.
Currently, I'm reading an 8-volume biography of Winston Churchill and have come to realize how much worse it was in England. We in the U.S. at least had something to ration. Interestingly, on the BBC television drama "Call the Midwife" set in London during the mid-1950's, it seems that rationing was still in effect (at least as they portray the story).
Currently, I'm reading an 8-volume biography of Winston Churchill and have come to realize how much worse it was in England. We in the U.S. at least had something to ration. Interestingly, on the BBC television drama "Call the Midwife" set in London during the mid-1950's, it seems that rationing was still in effect (at least as they portray the story).
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