This War Effort— - Free Press Online

from an old man in Waldoboro, Maine, the small town next to our small town. (but they have a supermarket).

This War Effort— - Free Press Online: 

I’ve been here before. I recognize this waking to unease and surfacing to realize our known world is topsy-turvy. I remember: weird years in a town with the men gone; the worried faces of mothers counting out ration stamps as they laughed off another meatless, butterless, sugarless meal; the stabbing “What if this is real?” feeling...