Posted on 09/04/2013 10:16:05 AM PDT by sr4402
Mine either...
I lost my old man in 1976. He was only 54; a stroke finally did to him what the Germans couldn’t do.
Mom, I lost in 2006. She was my rock, and the best friend I’ve ever had.
Not a day goes by that I don’t think of them. They truly were the Greatest Generation.
Both of my parents served in WW2. I’m very proud of that. I miss them very much.
The difference is that Grant was emulating what regular guys at the time were doing by the scores of millions. Depp and Timberlake and Usher, by contrast, can only “get away with it” because they are famous show-biz stars trying to make an edgy fashion statement.
That said, I do dare to wear a seersucker suit on some hot summer days, even though people look at me like I’m an ice cream vendor.
“...Both of my parents served in WW2. ...”
It was that kind of time... and they were those kind of people.
My whole neighborhood was WWII and Korean war vets. There was an older gentlemen two doors down from me who was World War 1 - I used to sit on the porch with him and listen to the Phillies baseball game on his transistor radio with him... he’d smoke his pipe, and I’d talk his ear off, and he was a wonderful old guy.
When I was in my 20s and moving away, he was in his 80s, wife gone, I went over and a shot of bourbon with him, man to man, and to say goodbye. He said he’d always liked when I listened to the game with him... never had kids of his own.
He passed away a year after I moved away. I cried like a baby when I found out.
Seersucker suits were ‘strange’ even when they were considered ‘in style’.................
Our school lunch ladies did a lot with what they had. In my early years I think they made everything from scratch.
There are a few “hits” according to the kids.
And hey, America is still out here.
We often forget to lock our doors.
The kids stress about the dress code and gum in school instead of weapons.
The kids also help out Grandma and Grandpa, who live next door. DS 1 is an ace at getting Grandpa around in his wheel chair and they are all more sensitive because of growing up next door to the folks.
We are out in fly over country but it’s worth it.
RE: I miss America when it was Decent and Good
What period of America’s history was that?
Unfortunately, our ‘culture’ is determined by the people who live in cities.
As those cities are depopulated by socio-economic phenomena, white flight, crime or whatever reasons, the population that is left becomes more and more liberal and hence more and more depraved and immoral.
But the fact remains that the culture, such as it is, becomes that way as a result of those conditions.
People who live in ‘fly-over country’ are too dispersed and too politically disconnected, physically, to be able to change the nation’s direction. That is why the Dems want to change the constitution to elect presidents by ‘popular’ vote instead of electoral vote. If they ever manage to accomplish this, there will never be a conservative or even a Republican president elected again, and the republic will be over................
It’s going to be a few long years, but when the time comes I’m leaving America as it has left me years ago.
Cebu in The Phils or Chiang Mai in Thailand are looking pretty good.
Hopefully the Dems won’t have looted SS by then.
No, but I would like to move back in time 100 years.
Even when they are not called for.
Thank you for that NFHale! I got teary eyed at that, and at all the security and blessings my teenage kids may never know. A lot of what you describe was still true even 10-15 years ago, at least in our little suburb in north Texas. But our world has changed SO much in those past 10-15 years. I feel we’ve been invaded and taken over by aliens; aliens to our country, or morals, our customs, we’ve lost that sweetness of caring for each other and pride in America, of all having the same outlook and values. What happened to us?
I believe that it was P.J. O'Rourke that said about that sentiment, "One word: Dentistry." Think of those old drills that ran on hamster wheel power. No thank you.
Hale!
Brother, you are welcome at my campfire anytime.
God, I miss America.
I miss prayer in school.
I miss men wearing hats and tipping them to the ladies.
I miss women wearing dresses everywhere.
I love old 30s, 40s and 50s movies, even though a little before my time, because they remind me of the decency and security that I had growing up . You see in the movies the intact families, clean and safe cities, clean language, etc. Kids that have grown up in this generation can’t even imagine the world was like that - they think it is made up, but those of us who grew up then KNOW it WAS like that! (Men may have ‘cussed’ a little among themselves, but NEVER would in front of children and ladies, and gentlemanly Christian men didn’t use bad language much anywhere except in very stressful circumstance! I never once heard my father use a bad word - even when he was mad!)
I’m trying to raise my kids in the old ways, but it is really, really hard.
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