The Pledge of Allegiance was also said in school - every morning.
You could go swimming in the ocean w/o wearing a haz-mat suit.
If you went to the beach in S. Calif., it was a sure thing you’d come home with crude oil (”tar”) on the bottoms of your feet. Mom would get a rag and the bottle of paint thinner to scrub our feet before we went in the house. Those were the good old days.
I remember reading from the Bible, and saying the Lord’s Prayer in publik skool.
Guess I really am getting old.
And, there were those days when you lungs tickled (best way I can think of describing it) when you breathed. And you still spent the afternoon outside doing kid stuff.