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Social Adjustments

Chelsie Ditzel Megan Lil Febuary 5, 1920 – June 11, 2005 1940-1948 Sewing and reading She loved her family and was a very happy person I was around twenty when the war ended. It seemed that everything and everyone had changed. It all seemed so simple to me our men were coming back and everything would go back to the way it was. This did not happen. Our family had to adjust to the changes of the war as best as we could. With the millions of fathers that had died in the war the mothers struggled with their children alone but the fathers that did come home and trouble with their family adjusting again and getting to know one another. We had neighbors that had lost their father in the war. The wife had one son named Billy. I use to watch him for her when she went to work all the time. Billy got use to being dropped off at neighbors and relatives houses. However the teenagers without parents sometimes became juvenile delinquency’s. Most schools had to be closed down because of this. Teenage blackout gangs became a big problem after the war. I remember one of my mothers friends son got beat up really bad he was put in the hospital for week. Any crime that happened the teenagers got blamed for it. They started making a name for them selfes and not in a good way at all.(“Spartacus” 1) One good thing that did happen was in 1944 to help the transition of returning servicemen to regular life, congress passed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act better known as the GI Bill of Rights. The bill provided education and training for the veterans and was paid for by the federal goverment. About just over half of the returning soldiers, or about 7.8 million verterans attended colleges and technical schools under the GI bill. This act also provided federal loan guarantees to veterans buying homes or farms or staring any new businesses. (Danzer592) Also when I was in my twenties a movie came out that seemed to capture it all. It was a very popular movie called “The Best years of our lives”. It catched the drama of veterans returning home from war. It was a American life that gave off a warm glow for everyday and the down to earth folks. (Crowther 2) Although it was very rough after the war America seemed to come back just like we always seem to do. __Works Cited__ Crowther, Bosley. “The best years of our lifes.” __New York Times__ 22 Nov. 1946 21 Oct. 2008. . Danzer, A. Gerald, et al. __The Americans.__ Illnois: McDougal Littell Inc, 2003. __ Juvenile DelinQuency. __ 2004