World War II: The Homefront — 1944
by Paula Bosse
Mrs. A. H. Curry
by Paula Bosse
This touching photo appeared in The Dallas Morning News on Mother’s Day, 1944. The caption:
HER DAY — Sons are scattered all over the world in a fight for a deep cause. Mother’s Day, 1944, isn’t the brightest we have ever had, but it is the most hopeful for the future. And it serves to call attention again to the fact that Mothers are still the greatest heroes of all. In Dallas, Mrs. A. H. Curry, 3719 Miramar, a Mother with six sons in the service — one of them missing in action — looks over the pictures of the men she reared who now fight for her safety at home.
(More about the Curry boys can be read in the full Mother’s Day article that accompanied this photo — an article written in the purplest of patriotic prose by Dallas Morning News editor Felix R. McKnight; read it here.)
Ethel Walz Curry (1883-1965)
Below, a photo of the Curry sons with their father, A. H. Curry (whose early career was spent with the Edison Company, working personally with Thomas Edison).
DMN, Sept, 12, 1942
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Sources & Notes
Photo and text appeared in The Dallas Morning News on May 14, 1944, Mother’s Day. Photo by E. W. Odom.
Mrs. Curry also had two daughters, Catherine and Carolyn. In one of those “everything is connected” discoveries, Catherine married Robert E. Grinnan who grew up in the Connor house I wrote about here.
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Flashback : Dallas 
There was a custom of displaying a service flag in the front window of your home. The flag would have a star on it for each son or daughter serving in the military. The color of the star was blue unless the person serving was killed. Then it was gold, I believe.
My maternal grandmother had five sons in the U.S. Army during WW 2: one in India (CBIO), two in Europe, and two stateside. My mother and one living aunt cannot recall if she displayed a service flag!
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Loved ones back home must be under such incredible stress when loved ones are fighting overseas. I don’t know how families with multiple members deployed manage it.
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The Second war was a big transition even bigger then the first One, and that was a very dynamic Century……
and yet we should honor the men who did serve, die, give up their lives in fear and in strength, to be come noble or cowards…..the true test has come over theses past 75 years, how history has in fact made this a reality of good for all in the end…..
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