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DN3
War
& Rations
November
20, 1943, Sunday evening, 7:30
I
had noticed that tools were getting scarcer that week and that
ration points were somehow getting harder to keep in one's ration
book, although the newspapers and the radio said that the Allies
were getting the upper hand of the war daily. For example, my wife
[Ruth] had been forced to forego getting a can of soup for
Belzebub, our Maltese cat, because she found our points getting
thinner in certain spots. And that week Edward Ernest Cherrie, the
school teacher came and said he had to leave for the army. Then
that Sunday, the university professor [Bernard Robinson] came to
his home with the same news--leaving for the army.
The
Man [Christian} had watched them as they went away. The school
teacher first then the professor and his wife [Audrey or Ruth] the next
day. What would happen, what winds would blow up before they
came back again? What blind fate would intervene through all of the long days to come?
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