What do you remember as being the best aspect of life during the great depression?
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Well, I'm only 19 but I have talked to my grandparents a lot and they really valued the sense of community and dependency on other people. They felt really close to the people around them...and now they're teaching me the importance of it.
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I hate to tell you, but anyone who remembers the Depression isn't likely to be on here. If you were five at the end of the Depression, you are 73 now. There are a few folks on here that old, but most probably haven't mastered the computer. And not many five year olds are aware enough of the world around them to remember it 68 years later. My surviving Great Aunts were 9 and 11 at the end of it. The ones who actually remembered much of it are dead.
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I really don't remember it. I remember the start of WWII and Pearl Harbor. I remember my folks talking about the drought and the fact that my father and mother did not raise enough crop to sell for the first 2 or three years of their marriage. They raised almost all their own food on the farm and did the field work with horses until 1937. I would say the best aspect of life was being able to stay alive and family looking out for each other. We were lucky to have a way to raise our own food in NW Iowa. Some parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas weren't that lucky.
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