Harv

Harv: “Well, here I am again doing something on shipmates and friends, due to a lot of pressure and dire threats from my daughter and son-in-law! They want to know about the folks back home during WW2.”

Author: “Yes, we do, mainly because I don’t believe enough has been said about the people behind the legends….”

Harv: “Ohhhhh go on!”

(smiles)

Author: “No, seriously, it behooves me to think that years pass bye, people move on in life and leave this earth, and then simply forgotten for all the accomplishments they did in order to keep us truly free.”

Harv: “Ok, as long as you put it that way, I will try to let you know about my folks, My Mother and Dad were well into their 60`s when the war broke out and I went into the Navy.”

Author: “Did they start out supporting the effort as soon as the war began, or did it take some time to reach them?”

Harv: “I would say it was almost a year and a half before I found that my Mother went to work at a Navy ordinance plant at a little town about nine miles from our home, called Illiopolis, Il.”

Author: “This must have been some shock to her, to come from a simple life like housekeeping to a giant plant such as this?”

Harv: “Oh yes, she had never worked at anything other than being a Mother and home keeper before. Basically, after I joined the Navy she decided to go to work and make the ammunition that she thought that I might need.”

Author: “Like I said, a true hero behind the legend…”

Harv: “Ok, if that’s the way you wish to put it.”

Author: (smiling proudly) “It is.”

Harv: “Well then at this plant they made shells, bombs and torpedoes for the Navy.”

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