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Children
participated actively in the war effort by planting Victory gardens
and salvaging used cans and other goods.
Boys
and girls of America can perform a great patriotic service for
their country by helping our National Salvage effort. Millions
of young Americans, turning their energies to collecting all
sorts of scrap, metals, rubber, and rags can help the tide in
our ever increasing war effort. They will earn the gratitude
of every one of our fighting men by helping them to get the
weapons they need now! I know they will do their part.
Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, official letter to Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts,
1942, in Robert Heide and John Gilman, Home Front America,
p. 61.
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