Women and the Homefront
    The war widened the horizons of American women.  Nearly all the women interview throughout the whole family history research, shared common view on the changes during the war.  They shared the hardship caused from such things as the death of loved ones and the emotional difficulties many of their men faced in coming home, made many of these women question the war.  “So many wondered if the war was actually for means of solving international problems.  On the up side of the war, some women saw the war as opening new opportunities to them and their loved ones.  But, on the down side of the war, it also brought abiding sorrow and a sense that the world had entered a new phase of its history.” http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/WomenInWWII.html

    During the war, many women, such as the women in the Hunn family, remember the hardship caused from the war.  They, like other women, remember having to use food stamps and having to mend victory gardens.  This changed the way they lived.  Many women did comment on the fact that they gained independence through work, and were able to keep those jobs after the war finally ended.  Aside from working, many women were regulars at the USO, wrote to the soldiers overseas, and talked with each other to give comfort and support whenever needed.  These women are what kept our nation together.  They did the work, supported the soldiers, raised the children, and learned to deal with what they got from the rations.  The women of this era learned independance, and gained a feeling of self worth.  Never again would women be seen as homemakers, but seen as individuals who can achieve anything they want!
 

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