GRGR(28) -- More Questions for first section

[Paul Mackin]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2000 JBFRAME at aol.com wrote:

> When I was a kid (born 1944), all the adults around me (in Northern 
> California) referred to it simply as "The War." The first time I heard of 
> World War Two, I made the comment:  "When I grow up I will fight in World War 
> Nine."  This brought a rueful chuckle (I was a cute little guy in those days).

That's the way I remember it and referred to it as simply "the war" even
after Vietnam.

However, in the first chapter of Crying Oedipa thinks: "By the time he'd
married her he'd already been two years at the station, KCUF, and the lot
on the pallid, roaring arterial was far behind him, like the Second World
or Korean Wars were for older husbands."

(the used car lot that is)

			P.