Patrick Bombanti

Patrick Bombanti Full Interview

“ We just went along with our normal life” “As for living through the war years on the farm we were called to be auxiliary police” “I went to the draft board and elected to go if one of us had to go of the family”

Patrick Bombanti is an eighty one year old man. He lived the majority of his life as a farmer. First as a worker on his fathers farm and then on his own farm. Because he was a farmer he was needed to stay home during World War II in order to produce food. The farming lifestyle was never a very easy or profitable lifestyle. It required long hours for little profit. The war did not impact Patrick Bombanti economically. In fact he was farming before the war, during the war, and after the war. None of these time periods was a better economic era for Patrick and his family. It seems that the war was very distant from Patrick and his family. He did not have many close family members away at war and his day to day lifestyle remained the same despite the large changes in the United States economy. The only way he was able to have a sense of the foreign events was from the radio and movies. After the fact it seems that these forms of media contained a great deal of propaganda and that took away from how much truth Patrick and his family were receiving. Patrick Bombanti may not have been impacted by the war, yet he was a proud American.