The millennials are just an enormous blunder. Unfortunately, they already outnumber Boomers. All but a few of our precious WWII hero’s are still with us The good news is that the Over 50 crowd is our most reliable voting bloc. Kids are easily distracted by video games and weed. Now we have to add in this horrible K2 stuff.
I am thinkIng you are a veteran. (The tip off is the high level of firearms skills). If so, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Few things enrage me more than gifting homeless, jihadis, and illegals with our money and now real estate when we have VETERANS on the streets, many struggling with PTSD, some self-medicating.Twenty-two veterans per month eating their guns or using other methods to end their young lives is unconscionable. This should *never* have been tolerated. This is on Democrat’s, Republicans, and us. President Trump appears the first to show some interest in change.
What a round about way to suggest that the sharpness of your shooting skills remains stored in muscle memory. The reason we can remember exactly what happened on Prom Night but forget what we had for lunch yesterday is a function memory vs storage. Your long term memories were moved to the storage part of your brain. Forgetting recent events is a true memory problem. Your recollection of the event didn’t make it into storage in its original state.
So memory loss with age is not a memory problem, it’s a storage problem.
My dad, all his brothers, grandfather, great grandfather and great uncles all have military histories covering the Army, Navy, USMC and in the "old" country of Austria.
My weapons proficiency comes from growing up in a home filled with firearms and being taught respect for weapons. My LEO son pushes me to stay sharp these days.
I've said this before and I'll say it again: my "disappointment" (for lack of a better word) with my own generation is we haven't taken matters into our own hands and fixed the problems in the District of Corruption ourselves. I'll stop there lest my comment get deleted.
In closing, my swiss cheese memory isn't just caused by age. I had to undergo an EEG a few weeks ago due to the mini strokes I've had and it shows that my pain centers in my brain are "lit up" big time due to all the nerve pain I deal with daily. The cause of my swiss cheese memory is in part due to age, the severity of it is due primarily due to the amount of pain I'm in daily and my brain attempting to deal with it at the expense of other things (memory, physical coordination, patience, logic & reasoning skills all suffering because of it.) I also have Ischemic Brain Disease and am seeing a specialist at the University of Illinois hospital for it. With all this, I still work full-time as a Senior Systems Architect for a large bank averaging 50-60 hours a week.
In short, I deal with "a lot of sh*t" that most people don't have to and some days it's all I can do to keep a lid on the frustration I feel as a result. Not looking for sympathy here, we all have crap we have to deal with especially these days. I for one wouldn't trade places with a parent having to school their young children @ home through this pandemic while trying to maintain a job and income. They have it far worse than I do, IMO.