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Herb met Millie at Fort Monmouth in New Jersey. Herb was in the US Army Signal Corps and Mildred Block was a civilian employee. They were married on January 12, 1946.
In 1948, when they heard that Levitt and Sons was building a new community on Long Island that would be especially hospitable to returning GI's, they quickly signed up to buy a house. Levittown heralded a whole new change for the nation, a shift toward suburbia. Millie and Herb were pioneers, building friendships, starting a library, making a new life. In recent years, many reporters in various news media who were working on pieces about Levittown or post-war suburban growth found their way to Millie and Herb. They have been in the New York Times, Newsday, the Washington Post, a PBS special about the automobile, and a Japanese television program about suburban America; and, most recently, Herb was interviewed extensively by the Museum of Jewish Heritage about the life of Jewish soldiers during WW II.
Two years after Millie and Herb moved to Levittown, their first child, Philip, was born on February 12, 1950.
Madeline was born on June 13, 1951, . . .
. . . and Dan on April 13, 1955 ( Millie's
birthday).
Dan is the youngest son, of a youngest son, of a youngest son.
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