Marjorie Campbell, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, May 13, 2002: Saving the legacy tape no. 563

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LL w talk d about what we did. It was just our h 1 li . th n ith t thin because everything was rationed; gasoline wa ration d· n 1 n rationed; meat was rationed. We just went without a lot f thing . d I h some of those ration stamps. It would be fun to have those. BEC: It would. MAR: But I didn't. But everybody was in it together so we didn t complain and£ sorry for ourselves. We just worried about the young men that were over there fighting the war. And they used to put, in the windows, they would put the gold stars of how many in each family was in the service, and then when they would get killed. So that part of it was-I think we grew up in a hurry, in those years. We sort of lost our-I don't know-those young years, say from sixteen to twenty, we kind of missed those years. So then I joined the Navy and I was very young-! was just eighteen. BEC: Did they have an age requirement? MAR: I think eighteen. BEC: So you just barely made it, then. Were you married? MAR: I belonged to the USO and we would go to the hospitals and write letters to the servicemen and read to them and just visit with them. While at the hospital at Keams I met the fellow, that was later to be my husband, out there. He had just come back from service in the South Pacific, and he was out there in the hospital. We corresponded by mail, and eventually I did marry him; but that's how I met him. BEC: MAR: BEC: So did you work at Fort Douglas up until the time that you enlisted in the Navy? Yes, until I joined and left. And that, you said, was about. .. 8