My dad left school at 15 to support his family during the great depression, his dad was blind, he became a linotype operator. When he went off to war he surviv

My dad left school at 15 to support his family during the great depression, his dad was blind, he became a linotype operator. When he went off to war he survived in relative safely, always a few km behind the lines in an HQ company, only got shot at a few times. This was because he had a rare skill for a man at that time - he could type (on a typewriter as well as a lino machine). Skilled lino operators were very rare and were treated well they could quit, go travelling and always know they had a job to come back to. (Dad went to university under the NZ equivalent of the GI bill after the war and became an accountant - for the same newspaper).