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Well, being that I was born in '67 I never experienced the 60's but I fear that is the starting generation of our current growing pain so to speak. I do remember that for the most part in the '70's pre-ERA (ducking!) Most mothers were at home mothers. Children enjoyed the stability of a parent at home when they left for school and when they came home from school. As well as a parent or both parents at home on the weekends with them. Family time such as sitting together for supper and other meals was common place, at least in my world, and the world of pretty much everyone I was ever exposed to. I lived in several different areas when I was younger Ohio, Indiana, Ten. Ga. so I think myself exposed to different domestic cultures during my youth. I remember very explicitly the night when they were talking about the gorillas taking the Olympic competitors hostage, I was I think 3, I had not long before watched Return To the Planet of the Apes and was convinced that REAL gorillas were starting to take over. It just happened that that night was when my dad was working a rare 3rd shift at the factory he was working at.
I remember the crying Indian and the clean up America commercials, the Saturday morning cartoons with the intermissions of I'm only a Bill type cartoons. The messages of United we stand Divided we fall continuously presented to us. Although we were a troubled country with such things going on as the Gas Shortage, an Economic Mess, the Iran Hostage Situation and many other things, we were a proud nation. Except for those that had taken a stand in the 60's opposing the Vietnam war and did so in such a way they immediately ridiculed and spat on our own people such as my father, a marine in Vietnam, one of the most Honest and Honorable men I have ever in my life met.
I am so ashamed of those types of people, and am so taken back by what I see from people in this day and age. People that have no education on such matters, know very little if any of the details, and most that have no clue other than what they are told about any of it. They are doing the same things as they did 30-49 years ago. Just the other day my wife witnessed someone making a loud rude statement to an Air Force Seargant walking through Wal-Mart. Unfortunately I was several Isles over or they would have never made another so public remark again unless they didn't mind being made to look like a complete idiot in public. The searge just shook his head and kept walking. I don't understand what the people that live in this country have come to. And I don't understand most of all, if you don't like this country, I mean if you just hold so much hate and distain for it, why do you continue to live here??? I would think the simple thing for you if you hated where you lived would be to move, Canada or Mexico or where ever.
I know I digressed big time there an I apologize but the thoughts of some are just so stomache turning it's hard to take.
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