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REALLY SO WHAT
What A Time

MY FAMILY

By the time the depression was over they had up-graded to a
nd
2 hand 1938 Pontiac with grey mohair seats, and everyone’s
favorite color, black.

MOM & POP: Stories
Pop after his World War I experience had few stories to tell
about his childhood. He was a good athlete and played
baseball, and a strange city street game. It was a pick-up game
like baseball only instead of a ball it was a cut piece of rubber
hose about 8” long. It was pitched like a baseball and hit with
a broom handle. The bases were run just like baseball. Both
Joe and I played it when we were teens.
During the War he was stationed in France. There, in 1918 he
wrote a letter to his mother. He said he’d heard that morning
that a declaration of peace had been signed. He wrote ‘I’ll walk
up to the front this afternoon and see if it’s true.’ It was; the Armistice
had been signed. World War I was over.

Before joining the Army and going to France to fight in the
War he was in his last year of school at Lehigh University.
Graduates then as today wrote senior papers. He had worked
on his paper early in the year, and completed it. Late in the
winter the school decided that any senior that signed up for
service wouldn’t need to submit their senior paper to graduate.

I always thought the research and effort to prepare a work of
that magnitude would be a good experience. One that would

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