Remembering how U.S. stood together
Please let me tell you my story. I lived on Garden Farm Road in Chickamauga, Ga., in the early 1940s. My mother and dad, Charles and Caroline Casey, worked at Peerless Mill. Mother looped stockings, and Daddy was a machine repairman – until World War II started, and the jobs were quickly changed from ladies’ stockings to parachutes for men in service. Mother told of how she was so afraid the parachutes might not be folded exactly right, and they would fail to open. It was her job to see they were folded correctly and packed. Since the ladies could not get nylons to wear, they painted their legs with makeup.
I’m sure some of the ladies reading this can tell many interesting stories of improvising that was done in those days.
I am so proud of America and how we all stood together. I love the United States of America and stand proud of all of our people of the U.S.A.
Barbara Moore