[Magdalen] Percentage of life during wartime.

[Cantor03 at aol.com]

There have been wars that overlapped personnel.  That's certainly true  of 
the
various wars in the Middle East, but I'm thinking of WW-2 and Korea.
 
There were two family physicians ("GP's" in those days) in my  hometown.
The younger of the two had fought WW-2 in the Pacific Theater, and  was
pulled into the US Army once again for Korea.  He was not a happy  camper.
 
Incidentally, it is said that the greatest fortunes in the field of  
medicine were
amassed by the few physicians in the USA who were too old (>46) to  be
drafted into the Military and remained home to take care of the  general
public at a time of rapid inflation.  
 
I knew a couple of them, including the GP who was our family  physician.
Both physicians then invested heavily in the budding 3-M Company, and
the rest is history.
 
 
David Strang.  Who remembers asking my mother on V-J Day what
the newscasters would do since there was no war news to report.
 
Her response?  "Oh they'll find something else to talk about."   And
indeed they did.
 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 5/26/2015 1:42:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
gracecan at gmail.com writes:

Just saw  an interesting article and chart in the Washington Post about the 
percentage  of US citizens' lives have been lived during wartime. For 
starters, anyone  born after 1983 has never lived in a world without war.
But even for my  generation, the figures are startling: we've been at war 
of one kind or  another for 43.8% of my life!
The article explains how they define wars and  lays out the various 
conflicts in an interesting graphic, but it's eye opening  and rather depressing...=