Parallels WW2 - Corona Virus. Not Really
I was only 8 yrs. old when Canada Joined Great Britain in 1939 in the WW2 fight. USA joined in 2 yrs. later. Quebec was reticent in joining up but eventually did. The infamous Van Doos (Quebec Regiment) were hated by the Germans as they rarely took any prisoners. What do I recall. Well my Mum was a nurse and worked shift work, so I had to do the shopping. She would leave me a note and money for this. We both had ration cards and meat tokens, which were small blue disks with a hole in the centre.Just about everything was rationed. We were lucky my Great Uncle operated a butcher shop and I'm sure we received a little extra. There was no TV but we had radio and I was allowed to stay up for the 10 PM BBC news broadcast. They reported how the Allies were doing on the different fronts and sometimes how the Canadians were doing, killed in action and wounded. The Londoner's were the hardest hit. I knew all the aircraft by memory the German Heinkel's, Stukas, Dorn