December 7, 1941 

Though young, I still remember

how on that fateful day

the look of shock in mother’s eyes

said that our world had just turned gray.

 

Then came the deprivation...

rationing for our army’s needs.

The radio and the cinema

swelled our hearts with their brave deeds.

 

Resolve and toil helped win that war.

For eighty years our land stands free,

but those who bore that world war

showed moms who helped were key.