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Three teenage boys painted a red swastika on Meggie's glass window as they believed her grandfather was German.
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Meggie and her family pack up and leave for the Willow Run leaving their grandpa behind.
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Meggie and her parents complete the Willow Run and arrive in Lansing, Michigan at a factory for building military planes.
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Meggie meets Harlan, the boy living on the other side of the wall, and they become extremely good friends helping eachother make it through the devestating war. Harlan and Meggie create a little peace in mind for one another on their everyday struggles.
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United States 1st B-29 was attacked by Japanese fighters.
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Harlan and Meggie start to belive the ice cream man is a Russian Spy.
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Messerschmitt 262 was the 1st jet bomber to make flight.
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70th Kentucky Derby took place.
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Meggie's family gets a letter saying their beloved son and brother has became missing in action fighting in the war.
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2nd Polsih Army captured US fighters in Monte Cassino Italy.
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Meggie's father takes Meggie on a walk showing her part of a beautiful scenery and tells her that the world looked like this before the war. Meggie begins to understand what is going on with the war and holocaust.
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Britsish Airborne attack capturing all Russian survivors
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Meggie is told a very important lesson about the holocaust and begins to hold hatred for Hitler. She is taught that the only reason for the holocaust is that "people can't learn to get along with Jews" also that "Jews are gone because they're Jews, old people gone cause they're old". Meggie doesn't think that there is anything wrong with Jews.
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Meggie's mom begins to work at the factory instead of just Meggie's father working, to earn more money, leaving Meggie home alone all day.
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Harlan leaves Lansing and goes back home to Detroit to begin school in a few weeks, Meggie is left clueless because everything she had done for the last two months was with Harlan or for Harlan.
