During WW2, when your parents were kids, did your parents have to wear

Did they have to wear Tags on a string around their neck that had their name and address on them every day when they went to school?

My mom did. Everyone in Saint John did. Kids anyways

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FreeSpirit1 · F

My Mom was born in 1937 she was just little living in the boonies of Mississippi
Dad was born in 1949 and not alive during WW2

hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M

My parents never mentioned it. Being out on the barren prairie not much need. They walked to school and back home again.

sarabee1995 · 26-30, F

@hippyjoe1955 Was it up hill in the snow both ways? 🤣

hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M

@sarabee1995 They never mentioned it. I heard of my then 6 year old cousin being put on the back of the saddle pony and sent off to school. She went by herself.

hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M

@hippyjoe1955 I was talking to my elderly Great Aunt who was talking about my Dad, two uncles and an aunt when they were young children. My Dad who was ten at the time hitched the horse to the sleigh and went a couple of miles across country taking his brothers and sister to visit their Auntie. It was very cold that day and when they got to Aunties place the three year old girl was crying because her hands were so cold they were painful. Her next older brother not quite 5 bravely told his Aunt "I'm really cold too but I'm not going to cry".

sarabee1995 · 26-30, F

My parents were born in the seventies. 🤷‍♀

craig7 · 70-79, M

No,they were both young adults during WW2 - and were still yet to meet.My father was on active service from 1940,my mother was a secretary in an office.

bijouxbroussard · F

In the 1960s elementary school kids in SF had to wear these dog tags with name, address and blood type. I still have mine.

Musicman · 61-69, MVIP

No. My dad's mom was the school teacher. The school was a old one room school where every grade was together. No name tags were necessary.

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