Thinking about my mom's observation a little deeper...

by pokynojoe, Monday, May 12, 2014, 20:00 (3790 days ago) @ pokynojoe

I may have assumed that the woman she befriended was her age or younger. Given that my mother was born in 1920 she would have been in her early twenties during the war. The woman she befriended could easily have been older than her, perhaps quite a bit older. We know that New Mexico was granted statehood in 1912. The woman could have quite easily been of an age in which she was born and raised in New Mexico before it was granted statehood, and thus my mother's qualification.
I'll have to speak to my Mom and see if she remembers the woman's age.