Posted on 12/08/2004 8:39:56 AM PST by dalereed
See this thread that appeared here last night and in particular post #43, 62, and 64 on. It makes me so disgusted this is the attitude of our elderly who were once American citizens who were the productive working-class. I am not even expecting compassion only respect.
I wonder if this is how they will be treated and dishonored in the future?
These people have paid SS for their entire lives and this thread makes me so disgusted. This generation wants child care, family leave and flexibility on the job because of THEIR children. What is their contribution for such benefits? Again, the boomers PAID FOR THEIR SS.
Furthermore, if these self-centered individuals would read Brokaw's Greatest Generation they would immediately what motivated these people. IT WAS NOT EVER SELFISH.
Good for this professor, I only hope the revisionists don't create the same distain for them in the future. These Vets were not drafted however it is well known that many only joined for the college benefits and I am not saying that to demean them in any way.
Forgot the thread. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1296208/posts
You asked:
"Can some one explain "worked 50-and 60-hour days"???"
Sure. You get up. Go on a mission/patrol/whatever, and after 50 or 60 hours, you get 2-3 hours (maybe) to sleep.
Then you repeat the cycle.
Semper Fi
Well, I am considering whether or not to be insulted by your post...LOL. I learned the basics in math, of course, and struggled mightily with algebra (strangely enough, not geometry). I finished up with Intermediate Algebra, by then having transferred to a so-called alternative school, where I could take the time to learn the math at my own pace. I ended up with an A-. Bottom line, I could learn it, but not at the pace of my public school peers. I have looked at some textbooks for physics, and it seems quite fascinating- but I simply don't have the juice for it. The funny thing is, my grandfather is a human calculator (he became an agronomist), and his brother was a math professor and dean of the math department (I believe) at an eastern university. Not Ivy League. You would think some of those genes would trickle down to me! My hubbie is brilliant in math, and so I am hoping that ability is passed to our children. I am more of a right brain person, myself. LOL
Maybe I should change it to Just my two coins, as usual! LOL
The only C's I got in college were from a liberal poli sci teacher and a liberal economics prof. With the last guy, I knew within 20 minutes of the very first class that all I'd get with him was a C. Both of those guys were the worst teachers I had in my entire college experience.
I was thinking last night that I'm looking forward to a decade from now when we get to see some of the guys in film. I'm sure that more than a few will give Hollywood a try. It will be interesting to see "old style" men who decided to become actors rather than a bunch of actors trying to look like men.
I got an F in a Labor Relations class and got it raised to a C by the administration because I disputed almost everything they were teaching since I had been in the hard knocks of business for 7 years before I was in the class.
What they teach, and what is currently used in business, is pure crap.
I'm glad I closed the business in 92 and won't start another one because there is no way I would put up with the PC crap, group think, and the premise that a business owes someone a job which I think will eventually break business as it's run today.
I would probably be sued or in the slammer is I ran a business today as I did for 40 years.
My poli sci guy handed us a list of 20 books in which HE HAD CHOSEN HIMSELF. He wanted us to pick one, read it and do a book report. I chose, from the list that HE HAD CHOSEN HIMSELF, Barry Goldwater's, "Conscience of a Conservative". And, this with me not even having a clue as to what side of the political spectrum I fell. He gave me a C- on my paper which was, by my friends who read it, worthy of at least an A or a B+. When I confronted him about it he said, "Well, I don't happen to like Barry Goldwater." So, I retorted, "But, you're the one who chose the book." It was as if anyone who chose that book was a goner. He did change my grade on that paper to a B-, but still down-graded everything else I did after that.
As I think back on it, he was very much like Michael Moore without the video skills.
That was such a beautiful story *^_^.
Actually, the folks who are really going to be in trouble are the upperclassmen in the fraternities who try to haze someone just back from Fallujah.
"he was very much like Michael Moore without the video skills"
Hope he wasn't as fat and ugly as Michael Moore, that would be tough to take for a whole semester!
It shows that he's a Vietnam vet and a Phi Beta Kappa, and it displays a Christian symbol (Chi-Rho plus alpha & omega).
The returning servicemen and women will indeed have a beneficial affect upon academia and the students and faculty therein.
They also form the exemplary corps from which many leaders in the nation will emerge - in all walks of life including politics.
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