Interesting, Mark. I turned 5 just four months earlier and remember I was with dad, fishing in the ship channel on 7 Dec., 1941. Heard of Pearl Harbor attack on radio in a restaurant on the way home. Remember saving tin cans, etc. to be recycled, gas rationing and lots of other shortages during the war, blackout drills, etc. Man, what a difference when everyone was on the same page and pulling in the same direction.
And the greenies think they invented recycling.