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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hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, 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 · 70-79, 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 · 70-79, 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".