Long Ago and Not So Far Away

Charlie Daniels. ^ | 10/22/07 | Charle Daniels

[Kimmers]

This is how I grew up in small town Minnesota....yes, I am feeling a bit nostalgic.

[AU72]

I remember Thanksgiving HS football games where the crowd was three deep all the way around the field.

Today most crowds consist of family member of the team and the band.

[tired1]

what you are describing is the lifestyle that still exists in some of the Eastern European countries that I have visited.

[avacado]

"in a recent interview I was doing, the subject came up about the social metamorphosis our nation has been through in the last half-century or so. The loss of closeness among old friends,..."

My Dad is a WWII vet and both my Mom and Dad are old time Houston Texas people. To this day, they still get together at least twice a month with their old high school friends -- the ones still living -- for lunch.

[rightinthemiddle]

This is how I grew up as well. For some reason, Liberals seem to despise those of us who had these experiences and cherish them.

[AuntB]

what you are describing is the lifestyle that still exists in some of the Eastern European countries that I have visited.

That lifestyle still exists in America, in a few pockets. I'm lucky to have found one, but it's being pushed out more and more every day.

[RSmithOpt]

Good post. 40 years ago, we never locked our house or car.

[lilylangtree]

I grew up with some of the same things. Because of lawlessness of the land, it’s not safe anymore.

[AuntB]

This is how I grew up as well. For some reason, Liberals seem to despise those of us who had these experiences and cherish them.

And some say there is no culture war. What was that favorite elitist word for those of us who still love that quiet life? Oh, yes, knuckledraggers....

[dblshot]

“Today most crowds consist of family member of the team and the band.”

Don’t know where you live but here in Texas we fill the high school stadiums Friday nights.

[Kimmers]

I also rode my bike, without helmet, on the back roads of rural MN, stopping along the way to play in a creek and climb the hillsides, on other peoples property no less.

[JMJJR]

great post !

I’ve always felt badly that my children weren’t able to enjoy (or even know) the America that I grew up in.

I miss it too !

[rightinthemiddle]

I remember seeing a big sign at a democrat rally during the ‘04 election. It said:

“F*@K MIDDLE AMERICA.”

[HockeyPop]

Somewhere along the line we traded Lucas and Mark McCain for Homer and Bart Simpson.

And G-d bless you, Charlie.

[astounded]

Ya gotta like Charlie Daniels. A great American, a great musician, one of my all-time favorites. No PC Bravo Sierra from that man, and I mean man in the old American sense.

“The South’s Gonna Do It Again”, indeed, the South is doing it now, with a preponderance of our US military coming from that area of the USA.

[rightinthemiddle]

Hauling hay, floating the river, catching Junebugs, hunting with a single-shot .410, Easter egg hunts, watermelon and home-made ice cream, Wednesday night Fellowship dinners, playing 5-point pitch, building a cabin, going bowling after church...

[RSmithOpt]

and I use to walk down the road with an unloaded .410 to a field about a mile away to hunt rabbits at 11 yrs old and no one ever bothered me. The fried rabbit was good too in Jan., Feb.

[rightinthemiddle]

Here’s what the Left thinks about our brave volunteer military:

http://www.gocomics.com/rallcom/2007/10/22/

Prepare to be mad as hell.

[ßuddaßudd]

Those days are almost gone, but not forgotten.

[rightinthemiddle]

Wow. See #16.