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Sheril
Janovsky Cunning’s wartime childhood took place in Long
Beach, California.
Many
of our games involved war themes. We made hideouts and plans
(and alternate plans) in the event Long Beach would be invaded
or bombed. My sister and I planned for situations in which we
might be like the poor, starving children of Europe we saw in
the newsreels, living without parents, in rags, in bombedout
buildings. We were convinced that if attacked only children
would survive and all adults would be killed.
Sheril
Janovsky Cunning quoted in Mark Jonathan Harris et al., The
Homefront, p. 69.
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