I’ve Danced My Life Away

Life After World War II

My husband had been in construction work and I said please, don’t go back to it. He was a lieutenant colonel in the war, and I was with him all the time because he wasn’t sent overseas. He was sent to Ohio, and he became area engineer there in Marion, Ohio. There was a big, big munitions factory there, and he was their area engineer. That means he was in charge of the whole thing. That closed ultimately, and he was sent down to Cincinnati to the head engineering office for that locality.

He was never dismissed from the service, ever. He just went on pension after he was able to be home. Before that he stayed in the reserves, and he went to Harvard for courses and to several places down in Washington and out to Fort Drum and a lot of other places. He used to go for two weeks in the summer.

We moved to Groton, Massachusetts, and he worked in Boston. He worked for an insurance company there, a big one that you never hear about called Factory Mutual. He was an engineer there, and they insured Boeing aircraft and all the big computer companies and General Electric and General Motors and all the things you never hear about. That company was a big, big company.