Molly McIntyre was nine in 1944, and World War II was raging. She learned to do with less because a war was going on. Molly learned to eat foods she didn’t want to eat. The hardest thing was she missed her dad.

She and all the children living in the U.S. had to make sacrifices. She hoped her father’s sons and brothers would be home soon. Factories stopped making toys and made supplies for war instead. The government needed cotton for soldier’s uniforms. This meant no more skirts or frilly ruffles. Molly and other children donated there own toys for war effort. Rubber and metal was melted and used for war supplies.

Every house had black curtains closed during the night so people couldn’t see light from outside. This was so if any attacks by planes they wouldn’t have light to guide them.

Though Molly and children in U.S. had to make many sacrifices and do without they were move concerned with helping their fathers and brothers who were fighting the war. If doing without meant their fathers and brothers would come home safe and sooner they could do without.

Once the war was over Molly’s life and other peoples life’s changed because some brothers, dads, didn’t come home. Some changes were splendid. Some were bitter sweat. Life’s returned to every day living. Even though Molly was fiction many children’s lives were like hers during World War II.