"And ice wasn't delivered daily."
What, like school, you had to walk, uphill, both ways, to cut your own?
"Old? Yes, I'm old. 85. But where else will you get observations like this in response to someone finding bullet holes all over the place in Hawaii due to the Pearl Harbor attack?"
What do you remember about the Confederate attack on Carlisle in 1863? When I was going to college in Carlisle you could still see damage done by Confederate artillery shells on several buildings in town.