Ice Cream Brightens Everyone’s Day…Even During War!
Ice Cream is pretty great, but one man named James Forrestal thought it was one of the most amazing things ever. Forrestal just so happened to be the Secretary of the Navy, and back in 1945 while the Navy spread throughout the South Pacific after the attack on Pearl Harbor, he came up with a way to boost morale. He decided to offer the sailors free ice cream. He allegedly once even said, “Ice cream in my opinion has been the most neglected of all the important morale factors”. Somehow, he was even able to convince the government to budget a lot of money for all of that ice cream. The sailors were obviously elated by the good-natured offering of their leader and they ate up the treat (no pun intended). The Navy even designed a barge that was essentially a floating ice cream truck. It traveled through the South Pacific delivering tasty goodness to the sailors. James Forrestal’s creativeness was certainly rewarded and he was later appointed as the first Secretary of Defense under President Truman.
