Karen I don't remember very much. We lived on the old home place and farmed,also daddy operated A bulldozier for madison co. we was about four miles from Good Hope Church where R G Barrett preached, of course he died in the late 1800's. I remember all the rationing of sugar,gas etc and us using syrup and honey to cook and sweeten with. I still use cane syrup now and prefer mollases tea cakes to sugar. We were very poor in some eyes. We raised all our food except sugar,salt,tea, and coffee. We had hogs,chickens ,milk cows and daddy was the best hunter and fisherman in the country. I can remember going to school with my syrup bucket and biscuit's with big pieces of ham and the town kids laughing at me, thats when I found out we were poor. Looking back now we did fine , we had fruit trees. peaches,apples,plum,cherry,muscadine, persimmon and all kind of nuts. we didn't get electricity until 1954 then only after me and my brothers cut the right of way 18 feet wide for 1 mile. This is getting away from the subject, sorry. Jean May and Joan Blanks came to the country to play with us some when we were young , they are my second cousins. Don't remember mama talking about the war at all,other than the rationing. I remember my cousin coming to se us in his uniform he was Joan and Jeans dad Roy Barrett, I don't remember his two brothers coming to see us. Also my half brother Henry Leland Barrett came to see us , he was in the navy.The reason I remember pearl harber, I have told that story all my life.not very good at this Bill Barrett Reuben Joseph Reuben G. Dallas C Henry L William(Bill)