Generational note:
I’m with you. I’ll be 66 next week.
At our last high school class reunion we had a great turnout. Over 175 turned out from a class of 364. Considering how man are dead, that’s phenomenal.
As the evening went on we found ourselves all agreeing on a few things. Among them were these:
The educational experience we had is simply not available today, anywhere, at any price.
The type of society we lived in, to include our race relations (we had a class that included White, Black, “Hispanic” and a few I still can’t figure out) were civil, forthright and totally outside the experience of today’s schools.
The damage that has been done is dramatic and I’m afraid irreversible.
Agreed, very sadly.
The last class reunion I attended was in 2012, and several of my classmates had passed on. I was fortunate to live in the West, where rifles were a part of growing up and classes were offered in the care and feeding of firearms.
Because of where I grew up and what the “political correctness” was at the time, the worst we had to deal with was “newcomers.” No one saw anyone else as “an outsider” and therefore, color was not an issue.
Life was good, and none of us had any preconceived ideas of how we should react to someone who was “different.”
I have to say, you have one of the most interesting ‘about me’ pages here on FR. Maybe not as interesting as Laz’s page but it could be!