[onyx]

I took an early interest because of the times. WWII had ended a year before my birth, so I grew up suspicious about Nazis and Communists. I had found magazines in the garage that belonged to my English professor uncle that showed livid photos of the death camps. He had taught me to read at age 4, so of course I read those magazines, too, as best as I could understand, and I understood enough. As soon as we got a TV, I watched the news, not cartoons and I was mesmerized by Senator McCarthy. It's probably best, I tell you the rest in FR mail, sometime. UCLA in the mid '60's was not a university to speak out about the Commies in our midst. :)

[SatinDoll]

I was 14 years old in San Clemente, CA, when I joined the military book club. Long before then, I had watched programs about WWII on TV.

I read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich before I was 16 years old, and books about the torture of Freedom Fighters by communists in eastern Europe after WWII.

Communists are now all throughout our educational system. I home schooled my nephew, and a good thing it was, too. He knows the U.S. Constitution thoroughly.

[KC_Lion]

Thank You SO much for sharing your story with me Onyx.

Yes I would love to hear more in FReep Mail!