They had children and war planes. Muster at 0700 Bottles boiled, flannel laundry. Grandma's coming over. Lunch buckets with a sandwich. No beer.
Blue denim overalls were the fashion of 1943. Bandana covered curls.
They were not all Rosie's.
For some dementia was the result of too much information. They were brave in their trembling.
Attachment Disorder began after the war when the chidren were born.
Awed at the
thought
that anyone at all raced through the day, propelled by the memories,
of the noise of
the bombings.
The dead,
memories.
Toys flung out of cribs. They smoked they tried to read books.
Several times a day the War was lost, the real battle, marriage, and, for the second time, the front, was drowning, There was this OnIy stillness inside.
They dared to muster the laundry, to listen to the broadcasts from the other room.
Gained the rank of Rivetter,
they were received with juice, drank to the dead and to those who wished they were.