Why do you sound so bitter? I am very curious about that. When I was growing up, very few people had money but, you know what. We were truly blessed by what we did have. I have had ancestors who have fought for this country since the Revolutionary War. My older brother flew on bombers during the Korean War. He and others like him flew on those bombers through mushroom clouds. It would take forever to get the radiation down to a “safe” level. When he died in 2006, he was taking 20 kinds of meds for that radiation exposure. I am proud of everyone of them. They are what made this country what it is today except politicians are doing their best to destroy it.
I am not bitter. At all.
My family has been involved with every war this country has fought. I appreciate those who have suited up and done their duty.
What I shake my head at is the folks who refuse to see how wonderful this country is TODAY. It was not better in the past. It was different. It was porobably more comfortable for some. And based on the ages of the posters here, those days were the days of your youth.
But the seeds of your youth have grown into the reality of today. Everyone thinks it was better when they were kids. I get that.
I am firmly in middle age. I think back to the mid sixties and seventies with a certain nostalgia. But I don’t think they were “better times” than my kids childhood.
I know that no one on FR watches TV, or reads the newspaper, or go to the movies. I laugh when I read that. Cable and Satellite penetration numbers just don’t support those claims.
I won’t disrupt the nostalgia fun-fest here again. I understand how the elderly like to look back because they are afraid of looking forward.
And, depleted uranium in the Gulf War and WOT are going to kill my kids thirty years from now. Things don’t necessarily change. Just the way we find to kill ourselves.