The older boys provided protective supervision. On the walk back to Everett Street, we heard talk that the President was going on the radio that evening. My friends and I were hanging out with some older boys, drinking sodas that we bought at Fasciani’s at the corner of Main Street and Everett Street. Shortly he returned and said, “The war is over and we are going to let everybody in Everett know it. When we got back to Main Street, the crowd began to disperse.