Figure 1.--Here my sister and I are working on our vegetable garden in fron of our house in 1945. You can see our home in background.
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Figure 1.--Here my sister and I are working on our vegetable garden in fron of our house in 1945. You can see our home in background. |
My parents had an apartment at the hospital, then a house was built to accopmodate the employees of the hospital and my parents had an apartment there. Then they bought a piece of land and decided to build their own house. That was in
1931. So, I was born in that house. The house was about 10 walking-minutes distance from the hospital. It was a pleasant little home. We had our own vegtable garden which was very important during the War. Notice my suspenders here. The suspenders were made out of leather. The two front-straps joined into one in the back. Where the belt is, there were loops at each end of the suspesnders through which the belt could be slided. As I was a very skinny kid and had no hips, my pants were always falling down. So, my parents made me wear this contraption. I did not want to wear the traditional suspenders made out of rubber. These suspenders also allowed me to wear my scout-belt. I was proud of my Scout built belt and wanted to wear it even when not wearing my Scout uniform.
Voute, Tom. E-mail message, May 18, 2006.
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