WOw holy smoke what an awesome story! Everyone forgets how Reagan was hated pre-1980s. My brother who is older than me was going to college at the time and had his car trashed because he had Reagan bumper stickers on it. Even my Boy Scout troop believe it or not, the BS leaders were trashing Reagan. It all comes from Nixon and they were all like “Not another Repub”...They all believed the media back then. To this day you will still find people who grew up in that era believing that Nixon was responsible for Vietnam. I tell my kids today, always follow truth do not follow party. Do a little research and they did especially my one kid Michael who could not believe the BS the Democrats get away with. That’s the whole problem with voters today, they do not take the time to look up facts.
having the run of the city, with no parental supervision at age 10.. We 3 buddies would wake up at 5:00 am, get our fishing gear together and head down to the river and go fishing.
Summers doing just exactly what I wanted to do, each and every day. if that meant day-dreaming all day, then that was my day.. if it meant blowing up my army men in the backyward sanbox with firecrakers... well, that’s exactly what I did..
somehow I survived without the constant supervision of a parent, whether it be at the sandlot ballgames in a local field, or touch football we played in the street until 9:00 or 9:30 pm in the summer.
open screen doors all day and night in summer, not locked.
out the house in the morning, told to not come back until supper.
It is kind of fun showing them it was the other way around.
Favorite childhood memory, the summer we spent on my uncles farm. 14 cousins, ducks, goats, horses, cows, a big ol barn, woods and a crick. Three months of pure heaven.