Saturday, February 04, 2012

General Patton Museum



















Terry Hager and I were classmates for three and a half years in Hudsonville, Michigan. He wrote “Death on the Night Watch” and has had several articles in Escapees Magazine. Two of his articles are in my book, “More Chuckles and Chuckholes -More Confessions of Happy Campers.” Look for his article, "Picture This" to be published in the March/ April issue of Escapees Magazine.) The background in the photo is a 1930 trailer.

Terry Hager suggested that we meet and visit the General Patton Museum. Terry and Ruth traveled east and my husband Terry and I traveled west and met at the Chiriaco Summit Café exit 173 on Interstate 10. Training for the troops was done in this geographical area. Lunch was good and we had no problem conversing about our father and teacher’s participation WWII, our writing and RVing in general. The museum was very informative about this time in history.

I knew that they had rationing during WWII but didn’t know about recycling. The poster reads:



“UP HOUSEWIVES AND AT ‘EM”
“ PUT OUT YOUR PAPER- METAL- BONES.
THEY MAKE PLANES, GUNS, TANKS AND AMMUNITION.”

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