Posted on 04/14/2017 1:10:53 PM PDT by Kaslin
Dig You Later--Perry Como (1946)
"It was mighty smoky over Tokyo"
When the Atom Bomb Fell--Karl & Harty (1945)
"Smoke and fire, it did flow through the land of Tokyo"
My God,Perry Como even sang about it-——I don’t remember that one.
I was almost 14 when the atom bombs were dropped-——we kids cheered and marched in the streets of our Boston neighborhood when it happened.
In retrospect,that seems dreadful,but we knew that the war would be over.
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Perhaps the ones cheering the loudest were our POW’s and civilian internees held by the Japanese. The bomb saved their lives.
“Their high-school class of 1964 had the highest test scores in history.”
Not a heck of a lot of “new methods” at that time.
But ever since they started with new methods, which were supposed to be better, things have worsened.
Entitlements begot snowflakes who suffer from all sorts of victimology, resentments, and need safe spaces, protected from micro-aggressions.
It is a generational name...they set the generation at about twenty years because that is about the time one generation begins to have another
Well we can do that because we are not only his elders but we are also his betters
I hope the bent one buys it first
He is a vegan. Some vegans look fantastic, most look thin and seem washed out. My children and grandchildren are vegans. Not enough protein, is that look.
You have not heard those years 46-64 are the baby boomers years? Books and self help classes in the thousands have been written and taught about the boomers, their personalities, their accomplishments, how to deal with them in business or sales.
Now all we hear about are the millennial's, I think it is from 1982 to now? Recently, my son of 36 born in 1981, told me is he sick of millennial's, being dumb and selfish and doesn't want to have anything to do with them. I laughed, "you are a millennial", he said not I am not I missed it by one year. Well, he is married to one, and has two for siblings.
“George W. Bush was, in some ways, the opposite. After an unsuccessful House race in 1978, he mostly laid aside politics. After his father lost to Clinton, he seems to have believed that God put him in the way of running for president, and he strove to tutor himself to do the best job possible.”
I would add something that Barone didn’t mention: Perot’s 1992 and 1996 runs made third-party presidential runs fashionable, and without Perot’s success I don’t think that Ralph Nader would have gotten so much press (or grass-roots support) in 2000. Had Nader not gotten 97,000 votes in FL, George W. Bush would not have been elected president. So there’s that as well.
I think W’s greatest feature was the 8 great years he had as Texas governor. Then when he did run for president with the support of the Republican establishment he did very well.
But I like your point about Nader.
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Now we've had three presidents who were born in calendar year 1946: Bill Clinton (in August), George W. Bush (in July) and Donald Trump (in June). Note that all three were born just a little more than nine months after V-J Day. (For younger readers, that was the end of World War II.)
You’re right. I heard, but had not listened. I thought I was a “war baby”. Instead, I learn now, I’m a first year “Boomer”.
Bummer.
Not certain WTH the formula is for all these sociologists going around naming generations. Ha!
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