Our parents and grandparents lived through some very tough times. In some ways, we’ve been very fortunate, but this is a bit of a surprise.
“Our parents and grandparents lived through some very tough times. In some ways, we’ve been very fortunate”
It is important to keep that in perspective.
I’m working on my family genealogy during this downtime and it provides a lot of perspective for me: My Grandfather was a German POW in the Soviet Union in WW I. Nine years after WW I ended, he left the insanity of the Weimar Republic, rapidly rising communism and moved his family to the United States in 1927. He left behind a mom, dad and siblings he never saw again. His parents were thrown out of their home by the Soviet Communists in 1945 and had to walk back to western Germany at age 75. His sister went insane on the return journey. The Soviets confiscated the family homes and factories he had worked to build up over 50 years.
This is just a small piece of the family woes and privations on both sides from WW I through the depression and WW II. I’m sure every family has similar stories of hardship that are much worse than what we are experiencing today.
Spanish flu
Scarlet fever
Polio
The Great Depression
Dust Bowl
Two World Wars