Can you imagine Americans sacrificing the ability to buy cars, appliances, sugar , meat, vegetables, and being asked to buy war bonds? - The entire country willing (for the most part) to give up the basics of their daily lives for a war effort? The victory gardens, the rubber drives, the USO.....
My mom was a young girl living in England in 1939. She clearly recalls that, at one point, in a bid for self sufficiency they somehow were able to purchase ten day-old "laying hens". Nine of 'em turned out to be roosters
She says she cried every time they ate one.
Birdwatcher
