My first big disappointment...............

[Bob Wright]

Today being Pearl Harbor Day, there have been some WW II stories.  Here's one of mine:

 

There was a War Bond Drive going on in Memphis, this around 1942 or so.  Set up in Court Square Park in Memphis, were displays, including a German ME-109 and a Japanese Zero fighter.  Along the sidewalk on Main Street was a long olive drab tent, with exhibits inside showing items and the number of $25 bonds it took to purchase them.  Distinctly remember an M-1911A1 pistol  (Army pistol, to me then.) and its price was three $25.00 bonds.  Hot dog! I thought, I had four twenty-five dollar bonds!  More than enough to buy me a .45!  When the soldier told me it was not for sale, I cried.  But not to where he could see me.  (I was only about four or five at the time.)

 

Bob Wright