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Posted by cj3b_jeep on December 12, 2006 at 08:37:13 from (131.123.222.106):
In Reply to: OT Hard Times posted by Steve From Arkansas on December 12, 2006 at 07:14:54:
My mom's dad started out as a brakeman and fireman on the B&O railroad after he got home from WWI. He lost his job due to the depression not long after my mom was born in 1930. They spent the summers living in a tent in a farmer's field while he did odd jobs to make money to save so they could rent a room in the winter. He also studied and became a certified railroad engineer. He got back on with the railroad in 1938. He died in 1944 as a result of being gassed in the trenches in France. My mom had a rough life. Her mom played piano to make ends meet. She never even had a birthday cake until her landlady made her one for her 15th in 1945.
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