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William Tuttle, Jr., remembers his wartime childhood in Detroit.
When
we were not playing war in the side lot, we were doing so on
the playground of the Peter Vetal School, three blocks from
my home [in Detroit]. At Vetal, there was a deep division between
the middle class children and the working class children. In
large part, we in the middle class lived on one side of the
school, while blue collar families, including recent arrivals
from the southern Appalachians, lived on the other side. I got
to know Tommy Fields, whose family had moved to Detroit from
Kentucky We were in the same class, and I visited his house
on the other side of the school; I do not think he ever visited
mine, but I never thought about it at the time.
William
M. Tuttle, Jr., "Daddy's Gone to War," p. vii.
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