Oh, Dada is a for-real hero kind of man. When I hear stories like this, I think how much we have changed as a country. People fought for what they believed in without regard for their own safety or creature comforts.
And they were babies!! My own father was an orphan and enlisted at 16 for World War ll - His foster parents signed for him, swearing he was 17. Babies!
I will bet he was larger than life and he didn't have to even be five foot tall. Super write and please, keep the story going! I love the way you spin your tales.
Thanks, Tom and I await the next installment eagerly!
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In 1917 it just wasn't that uncommon for a boy to be holding forth like a man. My Grandfather went to less than 3 years of school before he went to work.
Spoiler alert: Dada went to WWII also. Among other things :) Thanks for coming along.
I agree with you that it wasn't that uncommon. My father had a little more schooling, but, really not sure how much. He left in 8th grade to help on the farm and his schooling before that was sporadic. He went to school in the Pennsylvania Dutch part of PA
He was fortunate he got as much as he did.
I am trying to work out in my head whether the man/child had an advantage or disadvantage in life. They seemed to carry responsibility much better and there was a maturity level we lack today. Having said that, technology among other things have grown in its presence or lack of.
Oh!!! Thanks for the spoiler alert! You totally rock these stories!!!! Thank YOU!!!!
No, they were not babies.
In those days it was normal to work at the age of 11-12. To work on a ship as well.
We, in the western.world, changed it and made babies out of them after was decided they had to go to school till 18 and children labour is forbidden.
That also is not quiet true. At this moment there is a large group still working, no pension yet, and they started at the age of 14.
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True. True. We have changed our man/boys over the course of time.