Home Front includes stories of Wisconsin's contributions to the Allied War effort. These are the stories of the people who served on the home front, the ones who worked in the munitions plants, built submarines, canned food supplies, went without and waited for the soldiers to come home.
These, too, are the people who received the devastating telegrams, a demonstration of bravery and loss not just on the battlefields, but also on the home front.
During the war, Rae Todd Kinn of Oconomowoc was living with her sister, toddler son and young nephew. Todd Kinn explains simply that her sister's husband came home, but hers did not.
"I got a telegram, as you see in the movies. A military person did not deliver this; it was a little man on a bicycle. He came and rang the doorbell and handed me the telegram."
Through it all, however, patriotism and forbearance ran deep.
