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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Sunday, May 30, 2004 ::
Individual donors made WWII memorial possible BY CHRIS VAUGHN, Knight Ridder
It is a rather peculiar irony that a $174 million memorial was built, and an estimated $195 million raised, for a monument honoring Americans who lived through the Depression, paid a quarter for movies and relished finding an orange in their Christmas stocking.
'I paid $3,000 for this house and lot,' Key said. 'I've been here 50 years.'
Key's generation was probably the last for which sacrifice was a fact of life, as ordinary as picking cotton by hand every fall.
They were a people who largely gave up gasoline, tires and sugar for almost four years, not to mention surrendering more than 405,000 young men to cemeteries to win a war against the Nazis and Japanese.------------------------------------------- posted 8:22 AM :: reference link ::
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