Posted on 05/26/2017 1:04:44 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
One of nine kids born to a second-generation immigrant family in windy, rural Diller, Neb. (population 327), Grandma grew up poor, working the family farm during the Great Depression. It was at home — and thus work — that she met my grandfather, who was hired as a farm boy by her dad in the 1930s. They were married in May 1941, him at age 22 and her 21.
Their first leased home had no indoor plumbing or running water. Their plot of land was north of town on Commercial Road, where they planned to start their own corn and bean farm. Just as they were settling down, World War II started up, and Grandpa was on his way to Europe. He would serve for over three years, with stops in Germany and England, as a wartime “mayor” of a regional factory town in the latter.
Grandma had just given birth to their first baby, my uncle Roger. With Elmer in Europe, she had no choice but to run the farm they had just leased. Though she’d grown up on a farm, she’d never driven a tractor. Fall was coming, and no one else was coming to do the work. So she jerry-rigged a way to attach the baby’s bassinet to the side of the lumbering old John Deere as she taught herself to harvest.
Elda regarded this fact as 100 percent uninteresting. “It was simply what needed to be done.” I know this story not because she ever thought to offer it but because I was always interrogating my grandparents for war stories as a child.
There was a matter-of-factness about them that, in fact, wasn’t extraordinary for much of their generation.
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My creep radar pegs in the red with this guy.
He reminds me of Rubio.
Many baby boomer parents just won't launch their child because they themselves were raised totally spoiled and they don't think their kids should suffer harder then they have.
Is it guilt? I do think it is weakness.
The baby boomers need to get out of the way, before Millennials just decide to kill us off.
Stop voting for big government.
Kick your kids out into reality ville. (Not College) Yeah, I know this is to the choir here at FR.
DITTO
We can take heart the adult diaper business has never offered more choices, and that most snowflakes know how to change their own nappy.
I had it so much better.
Growing up in rural Nichols IA Population 329 (2 more!).
And MUCH more sophisticated, being one state further East and all.
OK agree this is still America and a few have brains and spines....we just don’t know if it is enough to make a difference.
Do I owe you an explanation posting Nazi? No i do not.
BTTT!
Sounds too much like “equal obligation of all to labor”
Here’s an old fashioned expression: I don’t cozy to Ben Sasse. I wouldn’t let my kids either.
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