Dear Folks, Among the stories about my memories of WWII, I described what it was like to go through air raid drills and the precise instructions about what to do in case the sirens started to sound. Our family was prepared and we followed the regulations to the nth degree. We had our windows covered with blackout drapes, we turned all of the lights out and we huddled in a closet underneath the staircase that led to the second floor of our house in case bombs would fall. But all the while I remembered that Daddy received phone calls prior to the sirens to alert him to the air raid drill that was going to be held. The reason that he had been forewarned was that he was general superintendent of Pittsburgh Metallurgical Corp. that ran their blast furnaces night and day to get out the necessary makings for steel production for the War Effort. But here's what puzzles me. I clearly remember the necessity of blackout curtains in our houses in order to disguise the fact that there was a city below in case of German enemy planes flying overhead looking for a large city to bomb. But what in the world could you do if you were in charge of blast furnaces that lit up the sky on a daily basis? Certainly you couldn't throw blackout curtains over the chimneys and if there would be one thing the enemy would be searching for was to bomb a factory of that sort. As closely as I listened to my parents talking about such things in the evening, I still don't have a clue how you could possibly blackout a fiery blast furnace. Still puzzled. vee