Most families, many have kids. And they used to do big jobs with big resource i didnt find it intimidating. And were pretty clever and resourceful i and trying to fige how to do things. While the army didnt help them, they didnt pay much attention to them either. To the extent they could come up with solutions, are pretty effective. At the beginning for the first five months the operation felt on its face over and over and over again to the point that general marshall wrote his protege, general eisenhower, in october of 1943 and said, you need to be very careful because people here are reading horrible newspaper accounts of damage in italy, by us, by the allies. And perceived proceed cautiously. General eisenhower didnt leave any special orders were necessary. He thought these men and women are part of a Civil Affairs division, and they have a job to do, military structure will work and people will Pay Attention to them. Time and time again it was a working. The monuments officers woul