Growing-up in Hammonton
by Jay Dubya 
I was born (not hatched as some acquaintances might believe) in 1942 at the
Swenson Home on Horton Street on the north side of the railroad tracks in
Hammonton, New Jersey. The town had no hospital back then so many other
Hammontonians that were not delivered by midwives were also naturally born (or
born naturally) at the Swenson Home on the "proper side of the tracks."
On December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor had been attacked. World War II was in progress
in the European and in the Pacific Theaters (where the war was playing). My
father had volunteered his services after the Pearl Harbor attack and was away
training at U.S. military camps and later after 1943 he had been stationed in
France and in Germany during my early childhood. When Dad returned from the
terrible conflict, he opened a small gas station/repair' shop next to the
family's modest white bungalow, which was situated beside my mother's parents'
Hammonton' business, Square Deal Farm Market on Route 30, the White Horse Pike.
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