Do you know any one who grew up during wartime?
413524
Sad but true, all wars since world war 2 have been conflicts. from korea to iraq. every generation has seen war. or as the gov calls it conflict. tell a soldger that korea, vietnam, panama, iraq 1, iraq 2 is not a war. i wouldnt but the gov would. they would tell them it was a conflict. messed up i think.
912104
Not just one year but childhood up to the age of 12.  Lived in a small Buckinghamshire village in the 1950's.  Didn't realise it then but we were cocooned in an idyllic carefree environment where we could roam freely with no worries and find out about life naturally.  We had rafts on the brook, learnt to swim in the pond, built trolleys from wood and old pram wheels, built tree houses.  We rode on farm tractors and trailers, made catapults, bows and arrows, pea shooters out of cow parsley.  Found out about relationships life and sex without magazines and Video's.  I was so lucky, it was another world but one I will never forget.
767786
Yes, the family has been since the Revolutionary War.\n\nWhen you grow up on base or post you really don't know the difference compared to living off base.  You don't go to "military school" but regular schools like in the "civilian" world except they are run by the DoD.\n\nIt wasn't a bad experience.  In fact when we lived on the Persidio in San Francisco, CA in the early 1960's....75 yards from my front door was a Nike missile launch site (cool for an 8 year old kid) and the window from by base housing bed room was of the Golden Gate Bridge...I good see the entire bridge.  Any idea what civilians have to pay for  view like that?\n\nThat was my experience any way.
715853
I served for 20 years and retired in '92.  One of the things we noticed during the run-up to Desert Storm was the number of people all over Europe, I was assigned to CINCUSNAVEUR support in London, who were screaming "Wait! We didn't know we might have to go to WAR!"  That was from people with 8 or 10 years in.  All we career types could say was "You're in the military, what did you think we were here for?"  If there is a good thing about the Iraqi conflict, which I opposed from the start, it is that our young service men and women have a clear understanding of for what they are signing up.  The young people who put their lives on the line for the rest of us are truly the best of our best.  I just wish our National Leadership valued them as they deserve.
1107928
During WWII, my father was in the navy, however his job was that of a mail carrier, in Hawaii.  Can't beat that with a stick!
1102525
MY FATHER'S MOTHER CAME FROM THE UKRAINE.  SHE LIVED TO BE 93, AND WAS THE MOST FLAG-WAVING, PATRIOTIC, LOVE AMERICAN LADY YOU WOULD EVER WANT TO KNOW.\n\nSHE WOULD GET EMOTIONAL WHEN SHE TALKED ABOUT COMING OVER IN THE BOAT IN 1911, WHEN SHE WAS 11 YEARS OLD.  AND HOW THRILLED SHE WAS TO SEE THE SHORELINE.  HER NAME IS ON ONE OF THE BRICKS AT ELLIS ISLAND.  AT 18 SHE MARRIED AND THEY RAISED FIVE CHILDREN...SHE AND MY GRANDFATHER WORKED HARD, TAUGHT THEIR CHILDREN RESPECT, AND EVEN DURING THE DEPRESSION, NEVER TOOK HANDOUTS. \n\nDID SHE LOVE AMERICA? ABSOLUTELY.  WHILE SHE CONTINUED WITH HER TRADITION OF PEROGIES (UKRAINIAN DISH) AND EASTER PAINTED EGGS, HER LOYALTY AND DEVOTION AND HEART WAS ALL AMERICAN.\n\nAT AN ILLEGAL RALLY, A CITY COUNCILMAN ARROGANTLY ASKED ME WHEN "MY" ANCESTORS CAME TO THIS COUNTRY.  ON MOTHER'S SIDE, WE CAME IN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY WAR.  STEVEN SWAIN CAME HERE AS AN INDENTURED SERVANT AND HAD TO WORK OFF HIS BOND.  HE FOUGHT IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR FOR FREEDOM.  WHEN I TOLD HIM THIS, HE THREW HIS HANDS UP IN DISGUST AND WALKED OFF.  \n\nI GUESS MY PEOPLE GOT HERE BEFORE HIS PEOPLE.\n\nI MAINTAIN THIS PHILOSOPHY.  THE CAVE MEN WERE THE FIRST IMMIGRANTS, AFTER THAT IT WAS UP FOR GRABS.
789417
Yes i have. I was about, 5ish. (Im 13 now) My family moved in with my granmother when we moved from Michigan. I had a bad dream or something and I went to my parents room. (I'd never done it before) My mom just rolled over and told me to go back to bed. On the way back to my room, I saw a flicker at the corner of my eye. Looking directly at it, I saw nothing. Changing tactics, I looked out of the side of my eye.  A old man was standing there, watching me. Scared out of my wits, I asked, "Who are you?" He looks at me and smiles then disappears into thin air. The next morning, I told my grandmother what had happened. She cried and told me " That was your Grandfather, he was just being your gardian angel, Torrie."  From then on, I got up every night, watching for him but he never came back.
218898
my parents were in the military i moved every 2 years, and went to 13 different schools .. cherish the times you have and all the different people and places you visit, if you end every day saying ang doing what you really want you shouldn't miss or regret anything
985757
if i hadn't been too sick to go get a few, Ii would indeed have been, but i haven't left my house in nearly 3 weeks. but my kids even got ones for my grandkids.  My grandfather and uncle died in WWII, and my father and 2other uncles were wounded My step father was wounded in Korea, My step brother was wounded in the golan heights while peacekeeping. In all there were or are 13 members of my family in 4 generations who served .  the youngest is my neice who was in Bosnia, and Afghanistan, and is still serving!
818101
I think i know what you went through!..I spent 7 years in the Australian army, and did 3 tours to Vietnam!..Where i was then blown up 4 times by the Americans!..{mind you, they didn't discriminate, they blew each other up as well!}..But after 'demob' i found civilian life very difficult to fit back into!..I survived by going to university and getting a degree in Geology!..But i still found it hard to tolerate the odd thinking of civilians, did you notice that you didn't seem to fit in?..I wonder if this was just paranoia or what?..Many Vietvets just didn't handle it at all!..a lot went "bush" many commit ed suicide, others went insane!.Moving from one world into another so suddenly has to have some sort of effect on the unprepared mind, and i bet you were never prepared by the Army for it were you?.
93265
Well ,it depends on what your status was. If you were a slave, it was pretty bad, if you were from the North it depended on how high in society your parents were. In the South, things were generally kind of rough for everybody. Also, just about everybody knew someone who was in the war, and it was especially difficult for the people who had relatives/friends on both sides of the war.
810417
The other day I read an obituary for a man that had inlisted in the navy at the age of12. This man served on three destroyers during ww 2. All of which were sunk, and the last time, he spent three days in the ocean waiting to be rescued. By the time he turned18, he had served his country for 6 years. Now let me ask you two questions.First, did he become an adult when he turned 18?, and second, do you think he was the kind of person that whined over having to pay adult prices? To answer your question,we are adults when we are ready to be adults, some at twelve, and for some, never. Your choice.
1128933
Stuff like this almost always relates to something that happened during his childhood. What was his family like? Was anyone abusive to him? He's got to work that out on his own.
235073
I was in Nam in 2001.  But too young for the war.\n\nMaybe you should go back and check it out now.  It might help put the past behind you.
546160
All I can tell you about Schrader's background is that he was born in Bortfeld, Germany. He was born in 1903 so he would have been about 11 by the time WWI hit. Depending on how far back you consider "childhood", it was either normal or he grew up during the war. If you're assuming the formative years, I'll assume normal.
255025
i have... i lost a friend that i grew up with, we knew each other sence 2nd grade and i found out that he died in iraq on valentines day, i am also over here in iraq. he was a marine i am in the army. \n\nrsp2aithooah@yahoo.com
533637
no, my dad is in the Air Force so we got moved around a bit.\nI was born in Minot, North Dakota\nThen we moved to Alaska\nThen we moved down south to a little island in the middle of the Pacific Ocea, Guam, looks like a little dot on the map.\nNow we live here in Texas. I still want Rueben, a mini horse. He will be brown and white, and I will name him Rueben.\n\nNorth Dakota - born, lived 1 yr\nAlaska - lived 8 yrs\nGuam - little dot, lived 2 yrs\nTexas - So far we have lived here for 3 1/2 to 4 yrs\nbut we have also passed through alot of States when we would drive by car. That is my favorite way to travel, by car.\n\nI plan on moving to Chicago when I graduate from college. I don't know, wherever the Lord leads me there I shall go.