We did walk to and from school, and my parents were not arrested. I was out all day during the Summer, and my picture was not on a milk carton. I shot my bb gun all Summer, and the neighbors didn’t call the police. A tranny was something in your car. You didn’t lose your job for saying that you didn’t like your tranny. I walked around with my cap guns in a holster and wasn’t surrounded by 5 men in blue.
What’s missing is TRUST in our neighbors. Sadly, it’s gone.
Remember too that most families had a dog - or two. We had a border collie for 15 years. He never wore a collar or had a leash. When we lived on our farm, he herded the cows for milking. When we moved from the farm to a town in a different county, he walked three of us to school and returned in the afternoon to take us home.
That was one smart and loving dog. When he no longer had to take us home from school, he remembered herding cattle and found some, (but sadly, they did not belong to us and were not milk cows, they were beef steers) - the owner was not happy.