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Hi, Jezebelle. Thank you for a very good post and I couldn't agree more.
Most of my teachers were ex military from WW11 service my father was a former Lancaster pilot and completed nearly 60 missions over nazi germany (he was shot down on his 58th and it still Irks him today).

I will have to reserve judgment on the abortion issue as I am male and have not made sufficient research.

Now rap is a different matter altogether I loathe it to hell.
My era was the Beatles,I photographed them a few times ,I was very lucky,The Beach Boys, Crosby Stills an Nash,Simon and Garfunkel,Jefferson Airplane and more lately well for the last 25 years or so, early Genesis. Rap is just doggeral cheap to produce easy to write requires no musical ability and is sold to the mindless.

There I've found a forum at long last to get that off my chest.
But then again there is an economic agenda behind it and it makes money.

Your last assertion that today life is considered cheap
I have once more to agree with you but then death is flung into our homes by all of the media. Thank god for National Geographic and the History Channels to which the BBC is a prime partner.

EOR...(end of rant)

I agree, and I thank your dad for his bravery and heroism through you as his proxy. My hat is off to him, and I doff it with great respect, admiration and appreciation for his service.

You've listed many of my favorite musical groups, too. Nothing better than the Beatles, Jeffeson Airplane, the Beach Boys and Simon and Garfunkel. I would add the Mamas and the Papas to the list. Great lyrics and harmony. I liked Mersey beat, too. Your synopsis of rap is right on, and I would add the violence factor in that genre is very bad news culturally, both as a reflection and for what the dark ideas it advances in the minds of our young.

National Geographic channel is superb, as are several others, including the History channel. We watch quite a bit of that stuff. You might be interested in the Blue Planet series being shown weekly on Animal Planet. I wish kids would watch that stuff instead of MTV, which is really nothing more than porn and violence. What a difference that would make, eh? Drumming that garbage into their heads day in and day out is a large factor in the difficulties we are having with our youth. I don't know why kids are allowed to watch. Take away the market, the incentive is gone, and it would dry up. people need to take a stand.