Virginia McCullogh-Ramos: Lived on the homefront during the war
Virginia McCullogh-Ramos, who was 24 years old at the start of the war, was born and raised on the East Coast in Massachusetts. She is currently 96 years old and will celebrate her 97th birthday in August. She recalls much from the time right before the war, during the war, and immediately after the war.
Her father was an automobile mechanic at the time of the depression, giving her clear insight into the mobilization that occurred in our nation’s factories. On December 7, 1941, the day Pearl Harbor was attacked, Virginia was pregnant with her youngest daughter. She was able to describe to us the spark that ignited the country after that infamous day, and soon after her husband volunteered for service.
He served aboard the USS Ajax, which was a maintenance vessel that served on the Pacific front of the war and was a part of the cleanup crew at Pearl Harbor.
Although Virginia herself stayed home to care for the kids throughout the entirety of the war, she was able relay to us the tremendous amounts of volunteering women participated in at the time for organizations like “Red Cross”.
The moral obligations to help in the war effort was strong, especially in small towns. Everyone was forced to make sacrifices in the form of rations on food, sugar, shoes and gasoline.
She reflects on the World War 2 era with a mixture of emotions ranging from sadness to relief. She enjoys juxtaposing her views from her past with what they are now and likes watching the world as it slowly changes around her
Biography
Virginia McCulloch-Ramos was born on August in the year 1920 and is currently 96 years old. She was born and raised on the East Coast in a small town located in Massachusetts. At the time of the war, she was 24 and she remembers a lot of the status of society before and after the event.
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