there are letters from harlan fiske stone. one is to a friend where he talks about how cold it is in the house because of the rationing of of home heating oil. he and his wife go to local civil defense meetings where they're where the local neighborhood warden them what to do in thebing raid and he comes home and writes his sons that he's convinced that if there is a bombing raid we're just going to have to sit and that he sees that's going to do anything. and there's actually, you know, there were ind other major cities to try to make bombing raids more all the government buildings, including the supreme court, wer night. the monuments were blacked out, the prive buildings were blacked out. and so there are newspaper articles that tell people what to do if. they're out during a blackout and they everybody to have a lit cbcigaret at their lips so thatf somebody is walking by, they'll know there's a■/u. but so, i mean, it was just the war absolutely pervaded every aspect of their daily lives. well,'s about legacy as think abo