1945 - Aug 15, 1945
The Day World War II is Over
I was working at the corner drug store in Lowell, Kentucky when some of the kids I ran around with came in and told us that the war was over and we were going to celebrate. When I got off work we started in Lowell, drove to Harlan, made a circle to Middlesboro, Kentucky and then to Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. We had a picnic lunch packed; with sandwiches, water, colas, even water melon. The whole trip we were beating on dish pans with wood spoons, laughing, and yelling at people we would pass, “The war is over!” We really were celebrating.
We celebrated right up until we started up the mountain at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee when the car started to run hot. Then we had to use every bit of liquid we had in our picnic lunch for the radiator; all our water and soft drinks to cool the car. We even used some of the juice from the water melon. But we finally made it up that mountain. There was not much left to drink with our food but we really celebrated the end of World War II. That old Cumberland Gap and almost not going up the mountain didn’t stop us; we did good until we started up that mountain into Tennessee. Those were the good old days.
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