Posted on 06/26/2021 8:14:03 AM PDT by HypatiaTaught
My parents are both passed. They were born in the 1920’s, Dad served in WW2 and Mom worked at Bell Telephone. She also had 13 kids and became an RN, but that is another story. Both would often tell me of the extremely tough times during the Great Depression. Mom said she remembers as a little girl with nothing to eat, she would sometimes chew the edge of a pencil just to satisfy the need to chew. Dad also experienced the lack of food and till his last day, never let any food go to waste. Found out after his passing from his friend at Dad’s funeral, he told me of the horrific days in Guadalcanal. My dad lost his buddy right before his own eyes, from a grenade blast. My Dad when asked, never ever shared his experience, only saying you don’t need to know.
In America, (not Europe) with all the terrible circumstances and events in the 1930’s and 1940s, they still had something that we no longer have. They had America. They had true family values. There was no social justice hijacking of businesses or the individual. There was no platform to allow or perpetuate the psychosis of one gender to say they are the opposite gender. There was no “Defund the Police”. There was no demonization of our Flag. There was no cancel culture. There was no one party rule. There was no enforcement of a fake vaccine that causes countless deaths and disabilities.
So my question to you, if you could go back to the 1930s or 1940s in exchange with our current times, would you?
No...but I’d take 1955 in a heartbeat.
Well, it would be preferable to the 1830s and 1840s where the Democrat/Left wants to take us ... global warming, y’know!
I asked my dad, who was born in 1908, if he thought we could see another depression. He said he hoped so. If you weren’t adverse to working, there was money to be made for sure..
Book me
I would not. I would know for a fact that it would take me back away from the Second Coming of Christ, the main event in history, and the only remedy for the world.
Of course we may have been the exception to the rule but that's how I see the 40s...and the mid 50s.
Yep... So many today are adversed to working.
Look at all the businesses that can’t fill their positions.
Crazy days we live in.
A scientist once said, “Rewind the tape of life, not even very far, and its likely that today we would recognize nothing.” The tragic 1968 loss of they USS Scorpion caused the Navy to reevaluate EVERYTHING. How many future disasters were avoided because we lost the Scorpion? Time is not something anyone should play with.
As for the culture. You’d find yourself completely out of place. We are uniquely the creatures of our time. Which is why we should not try to evaluate the motives and morals of our ancestors, because those were the motives and morals of that time. Evaluate not, lest you be evaluated. And, leave the damned statues alone.
I’d go to 1986 and try to convince Reagan to not sign that amnesty bill.
No. Too many modern conveniences to miss. I guess it’s easier if you are already living without those conveniences. Also, it sounds like the Thirties and Forties weren’t all that great. Maybe what you’re missing is the satisfaction your parents had in coming through war and depression and building a better life in a better world afterwards.
Your father knew that there is a time and place for being stoic or discreet. Sometimes, life functions better if you can compartmentalize or put bad experiences out of your mind for most the time.
There are scenes and moments that your child or your spouse don’t really need to have described to them in detail. They may, as a result, become traumatized just by imagining it, out of proper context.
If one needs help, there are therapists available, or even better, another adult friend who has been through the same thing.
Only in my dreams.
I might, just to see some of the Jazz legends in their prime.
My dad was a waist gunner on a B-17. Whenever I asked him about the war all he’d say was ‘We had a job to do. We did it and came home.’ I’ve read a lot on the 8th Air Force. Based on what I’ve read he probably ate breakfast with a lot if buddies he didn’t eat supper with. There were no safe places at 30,000 feet over Germany. Nor damn few on the beaches of Quadalcanal. And today a bunch of childish, perversion loving, hate filled people who don’t hold a candle to men like our fathers are destroying everything they fought to preserve.
Yes times were tough. But they were financially tough.
Today, we have psychological warfare(down is up, white is black, man is woman, etc) along with the physical warfare with our bodies and the future enforcement of the jabs. And the outright stealing of our Presidential election.
Take me back to common sense.
I’d go forward, not backwards.
My target year would be 1984.
One thing that always struck me was that after the world wide death and destruction of WW2, when our guys were all sent back home, their homes and neighborhoods were still standing pretty much as they left them.
When I said 1984, I was not referring to Orwell. I was referring to the year Reagan won a 2nd term in a landslide.
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