My mother and dad liked to go dancing alot during the war.  One weekend they went to Gulfport with other couples.  They were in a dance contest and one of the girls buttons on her underwear snapped and she just danced right of them and keep on dancing.  I remember mom saying no elastic in anything and no nylons.  One of the couples they went with won the contest but she said everyone was always talking about this happening.  I heard the story from two of her sisters living down on the coast and my dad's twin sisters who were living down there then also.    Can any of us imagine not having elastic or stockings or even socks without some kind of strechy material or even the closthes we wear.    Uncle George was in the army and before that the national guard.  He was from New York City.  He was heading for Java when it got took by the Japan.  So they sent him to Pascagoula.  He was in charge of keeping the Beacon lights working.  He went from Pascagoula to somewhere in Texas.  They then transfered him overseas.    Uncle Harry was in the Medical Corp.  He was in many ports and on many ships during his 30 years with the Navy. He finally went to Memphis and Retired there.    Aunt Lue Lived there with Uncle Gegore and 3 children.  Aunt Sophia and Uncle Harry never had children.    Uncle Harry retired Chief Phamatist.  Cant spell good ok.  He was all over the Pacific and then Korea, Suez Canal, and many other places.  Aunt Sophia lived in VA more than anywhere.    Uncle Harry and I use to write.  trying to find some of the letters.  I was in middle and high school.      My mother told me another story.  She said when she was a little girl before her mother died she loved to ride with her brother on the horse.  She said one evening they were going to the tent meeting and she wanted to stay with her brother and they let her.  He took her riding over to his girlfriends and then by her grandfathers and grandmothers and too see others.  When coming home the corn started hitting her in the face and she got scared and wanted her mother.  when they got home he washed her up and put a dress on her and took her to her mother and daddy at the tent meeting.  Her mother had to take her outside because mothers brother put her dress on wrong side out and she combed her hair.  There were 6 girls and one boy All of them said the was very gentle and caring with them all.  I can say he was always gentle and good to me  I liked him a lot.  He was my only true blood kin Uncle on both sides of the family.    My cousin James Edward Gregory (Edward) was with Patton during WWII  He drove a tank.  I remember him saying that Patton never ask a man to do anything he would not do himself.    Got to go will write more sometime again Jeannie