Waiting for the Train

Tougher than the WWI Battlefield "That Depression was one of those depressions that hit everybody, so that made it still more difficult to get at least enough work to eke out a mere existence." John MacDonald's story starts in the early part of the Great Depression. Although he was a combat veteran of World War I, he likens the difficulty of enduring this tumultuous time as being harsher than a literal battlefield. It was a period of hardship for most everyone in the United States at the time, a