My mother-in-law, the week she died, told me about watching the family farm auctioned off during the depression. she described in vivid detail watching all their personal belongings, including her things being sold. Strange thing was, after she died I mentioned our conversation, and none of her kids had ever heard the story.
Wow. I hear a lot of people say their relatives who served in wars don’t talk about it much. Maybe it was a rare thing for her to talk about it too