Here it is usually employed in the more general sense: War baby (disambiguation) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search
War baby usually refers to any child born during wartime, particularly during World War I or World War II. There may be particular circumstances of the baby's birth or parentage implied. On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Joseph McAllister<[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 20, 2009, at 13:13 , Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > >> I have no idea what my sign is. I was born Dec 18, 1941. That makes >> me a War Baby, but that's all I know. > > > The term "War Baby" refers to the illegitimate children born of soldiers in > occupation of or during battle in allied and non-allied countries during > that conflict. > > You (and I) were conceived prior to a declaration of war, and (I assume) not > in a county occupied by foreign forces. We unfortunates are just babies, no > title, no ramp up of support for us. Fell through the cracks, as it were, > before the war, before the "Baby Boom" afterwards. > > Though I was by standards of the time a premature baby, I did weight 7lb > 2oz. By todays standards, just small. And with a birthday of July 4th, 1942, > was most likely conceived prior to Pearl Harbor. > > Buy you a drink? > > > Joseph McAllister > [email protected] > > http://gallery.me.com/jomac > http://web.me.com/jomac/show.me/Blog/Blog.html > > > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
