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[nicmarlo]

My dad...he’s something else. Very smart.

His mother went to college (and that was way back when women just really didn’t go to college) and was a teacher. He’s very proud of what an excellent teacher she was. Still talks about her teaching abilities and tutoring kids...very proudly.

He’s got the teacher knack in him (with many things, not so well with other things, though : )

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I’m glad you and nic said that because I thought it was just my pop who wouldn’t discuss it.

[nicmarlo]

A person would never know we won the Revolutionary War until the last five minutes of the show.

lolol! Oh, that's not really funny, but I know what you mean. Egads....all the anti-American crap anymore and revisionist history...sickening.

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he figured women should be taken care of by the men and not have to be out there working hard supporting the family

That's the same way my pop thought.

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A person would never know we won the Revolutionary War until the last five minutes of the show.

Given the reasons behind the revolution, and our current tax rate, would the Founding Dads think we did?

[nicmarlo]

My mom was a very smart woman, and she never worked when I was growing up (she died, though, when she was only 41-—when I was 12). My dad had his own store at the time, and she’d go in and help do things....actually started having sewing classes for women, maybe a couple times a week when I got older. I’m glad, though, my mom was home when I got home from school....I’d go looking for her if she wasn’t in the house...usually, she’d be finishing up playing mah jong at the clubhouse in the community where we lived, so I’d watch her play that for a bit before she came home....in some ways, it was idyllic, imho.

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I’m glad you and nic said that because I thought it was just my pop who wouldn’t discuss it.

Nope. It's a generational thing. I've barely been able to extract anything about those wars from my Dad.

[nicmarlo]

Given the reasons behind the revolution, and our current tax rate, would the Founding Dads think we did?

I think, given a host of other things, besides the tax rate, our Founding Fathers are perpetually turning in their graves.

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It always amazed me that pop treated one of us kids when we got hurt. It wasn't until I was older that I understand why he did it and not momma. He had the training. lolol

I never asked him a question, (when I raised the courage to talk to him when I was a kid) that he didn't know the answer too. He was one of the children should be seen and not heard crowd. lol When I became an adult, an entirely different man.

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It is sickening. I’ve just about given up on that channel.

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At high RPM...

(OTOH the poorest of us today is far richer that the richest of them!)

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My momma died when she was 45 and I was 18. I had a beautiful childhood because of her. My momma never worked outside our home either. With seven kids she had enough work to do. lol

[nicmarlo]

children should be seen and not heard crowd

Oh good grief.....is that ever a familiar phrase, lolol!

I didn't raise my kids that same way....

[nicmarlo]

Both true, nully, both true.

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*sigh* These days it’s more like: “Children should be obscene and not heard.”

[nicmarlo]

There were only 3 of us....but it was my brothers who kept her most busy (of course : )

[nicmarlo]

Oh, I know...it’s really awful.

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It's a generational thing.

I'm afraid so. It had to be really bad for them there.

[nicmarlo]

I wonder how the History Channel will re-write the history of chipping Americans????

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our Founding Fathers are perpetually turning in their graves.

I don't doubt that for a second.