out in the mohave, general patton, training his desert warriors to take on rommel in north africa.supplied those prisoners for our prison camps. those captured troops from north africa, italy, from sicily. it was a remarkable time because on the road, there was not civilian traffic. there were tire rations. gasoline rations. the whole nation was involved in the war. route 66, filled with troop convoys, our g.i.'s taking one last visit before they shipped out. the war ended, what happened? america had prosperity, of course. those g.i.'s came home. what did they come home to? they came home to the g.i. bill. they got to go to college. they got to buy a house at a good rate. they got to marry their sweetheart. then everybody got a brand-new car. cars were made again. and we had to show our family where we trained at the great lakes or oklahoma or california. and people took to the road and that wartime blended right into peacetime and into the great long heyday of route 66, late 1940's, throughout the 1950's, 1960's, even into the 1970's. even after president eisenhower in 1956 signed