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Date Posted: Sun, Jul 25 2021, 12:56:34 PDT
Author: Bruce Ross (Ross)
Author Host/IP: 45-158.207-68.elmore.res.rr.com / 68.207.158.45
Subject: Re: In the 50's & 60'2, was America a better country
In reply to: Don Poss 's message, "In the 50's & 60'2, was America a better country" on Sun, Jul 04 2021, 15:23:29 PDT

I just turned 80, born 9 mths before Pearl Harbor and have vague memories of WWII.I remember riding the train from New Bedford to Boston, MA.with my mother. I remember all the uniforms and how nice they were to me' My father was a Marine, the only memory of him was Christmas of 1946, parents divorced and I never saw him again.Mother married again to a Navy vet who was a drunk and wouldn't work. He had gone through all the major battles in the Pacific on a tin can, looking back he proberly had PTSD.I say all this to emphasis for people and the country recovering from WWII was not all roses. The war was tramatic for this country and the world. With peace and prosperity the fifties were good years for for the USA and the the baby boomers, socialty problems were prevelent, but we weren't aware. Communsium was gaining a strong foothold, a new world order was formulating that would later affect the children of the world. I would definetly say the 50's was a wonderful time to grow up. The 60's and vietnam changed our world, nieve young teenages were exposed to what the Greatest Generation, our fathers, fought and died to prevent, another war.Now another whole generation was to be affected for their lifetime. This cycle has been going on since the begginning of man, we are not capable of peace I'm afraid and it will eventualy destroy us.

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