World War II interrupted my high school life like everyone else’s – and I found myself entertaining our boys through USO gathering and other patriotic ways.

A school group of us girls would be bused to White Plains, NY, about a half hour away, and we would spend the evening talking and dancing with our troops.

I never sat still enough before to be a “knitter or sewer,” but I learned to knit for our boys. The argyle socks turned out pretty good! We would occasionally bring a few boys back to our families for a home-cooked meal.

Even at high school age, we all seemed to know the importance of winning this war.