The Old Schoolhouse Magazine

Unity and loyalty were recurring themes in the people’s daily lives.

Unity and loyalty were recurring
themes in the people’s daily lives. They
heard it on the radio in songs like “There’ll
Be a Hot Time in the Town of Berlin”
sung by crooner Bing Crosby and the An-
drews sisters in 1944. They watched it in
the newsreels shown before seeing mov-
ies such as “The Fighting Seabees” star-
ring John Wayne. They saw it when they
walked down the streets, on posters warn-
ing them to keep quiet about where their
sons were, telling them to join together on
the battlefield and in the workplace. The
men were offered lives of adventure in the
Navy, the women were offered opportu-
nities to take their places in the factories
that the men left behind, and the children
were encouraged to save up to buy war
bonds, recycle scrap metal for airplanes,
and collect leftover cooking fat for bullets.
America was showing the rest of the world
that they were a force to be reckoned with.

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One thing that I find to be most interesting about the World War II era is how involved the children seemed to be in the effort to win the war, not only in the ways mentioned above but in many other ways too. The country’s leaders seemed to realize the importance of the American youth and did not allow them to be cast aside because they were “too young.” Children were encouraged to play with plane identification cards, which showed a detailed silhouette of Allied and Axis planes, due to a desire to prevent another Pearl Harbor-style attack. They were taught to “waste not, want not” and the importance of a Victory Garden to help their families save money, so they, in turn, could help support the war effort.

What was the end result? Well, some would say the survival of democracy was the important outcome. President Roosevelt stated in his Third Inauguration speech: “Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men’s enlightened will . . . . It is the most humane, the most advanced, and, in the end, the most unconquerable of all forms of human society. The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase of human history.” 1 My dad has always said that he believes that one reason why God has blessed America with so many victories is because He intended to use our nation to help fulfill His promise to establish Israel as a nation. I can only say that if this is true, then we all, as Americans, have something to be proud of and should challenge ourselves to follow the words written in Joshua 22: 5, “ . . . to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments, and to cleave unto Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

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Katie Follett is 17 years old and an avid fan of history! She has been homeschooled since third grade, and loves being able to see how the Lord works all throughout His Story. Often the verse that comes to mind as she reads is Proverbs 21: 1.