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What happened to people whose homes were bombed in WWII?

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How did the US go from a place where it was almost one’s patriotic duty - for women, children and men - to knit “for the boys” in WWI and WWII to a place where, by the mid-to-late ‘50’s, knitting became taboo for men and boys? What changed so significantly after WWII?

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‪How was it that Frederick Douglas (as well as other escaped slaves who managed to capture public attention) was able to live the rest of his life as a free man?

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What happened to people whose homes were bombed in WWII?	1683
How did the US go from a place where it was almost one’s patriotic duty - for women, children and men - to knit “for the boys” in WWI and WWII to a place where, by the mid-to-late ‘50’s, knitting became taboo for men and boys? What changed so significantly after WWII?	35
‪How was it that Frederick Douglas (as well as other escaped slaves who managed to capture public attention) was able to live the rest of his life as a free man?	1