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re: What do you think was the single most difficult year to be born in America?
Posted on 3/4/19 at 3:46 pm to NawlinsTiger9
Posted on 3/4/19 at 3:46 pm to NawlinsTiger9
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very few remarkable milestones in technology or medicine had been hit
Wat? For the entire first three quarters of the 20th century? A person born in 1896 would go from seeing horse and buggy as the main transportation to watching man walk on the fricking moon in one lifetime.
This post was edited on 3/4/19 at 3:47 pm
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Posted on 3/4/19 at 3:58 pm to NawlinsTiger9
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As in, what birth year would have yielded the hardest life?
anytime that resulted in havng to go to Vietnam.
agree with others too when it comes to the days of the American Frontier.
idk which would be worse. Life on the frontier seems terrible but Vietnam completely fricked a generation. Plus, all the dying.
Posted on 3/4/19 at 4:02 pm to NawlinsTiger9
Probably some year in the 1500’s when a plague wiped out 80% of the population.
This post was edited on 3/4/19 at 4:03 pm
Posted on 3/4/19 at 4:09 pm to NawlinsTiger9
It’s between 1842 and 1923. 1842 you saw the nation devolve into chaos and got to fight in a war where half your friends were killed. 1923 you don’t get to really experience the Roaring 20s, get the shite of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, and then get to fight in WWII. That was a rough fricking youth.
If you’re black, pretty much anytime before 1964.
For Europeans I’ll agree with this, but not for Americans. Americans just got in the tail end of WWI when the increased technology made it not as bad as the Europeans experienced during the beginning and middle of the war. You also get to experience the Roaring 20s which was fun. The depression sucked, but at least you wouldn’t be drafted for WWII at that age. The early 20th century was a great time to live for a white guy in the US relative to any other time before at least until the Depression hit.
If you’re black, pretty much anytime before 1964.
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I’m going with 1896.
For Europeans I’ll agree with this, but not for Americans. Americans just got in the tail end of WWI when the increased technology made it not as bad as the Europeans experienced during the beginning and middle of the war. You also get to experience the Roaring 20s which was fun. The depression sucked, but at least you wouldn’t be drafted for WWII at that age. The early 20th century was a great time to live for a white guy in the US relative to any other time before at least until the Depression hit.
This post was edited on 3/4/19 at 4:16 pm
Posted on 3/4/19 at 4:11 pm to saturday
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It would have been impossible to have been born in America in 1491
Posted on 3/4/19 at 4:12 pm to SidewalkDawg
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Yeah frick those native americans, they aren't real people anyway.
The western hemisphere was here but was it called America at that time?
frick it, this is stupid anyway
Posted on 3/4/19 at 4:12 pm to NawlinsTiger9
I’d say like 1995 with the way the boomers forced us to get student loan debt but they ruined the economy
Posted on 3/4/19 at 4:12 pm to OMLandshark
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1842 and 1923
My grandfather and great-great-great-grandfather appreciate your exactness.
Posted on 3/4/19 at 4:12 pm to NawlinsTiger9
Depends. What is the color of my skin. Am I male or female.
Posted on 3/4/19 at 4:14 pm to tigerfan247365
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Depends. What is the color of my skin. Am I male or female.
In 2019, you decide these things.
Posted on 3/4/19 at 4:14 pm to MorbidTheClown
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1929
Nah, you’d miss being drafted for WWII. It’s much more cruel for the people born 5 years before that have small memories of a rich society they never could comprehend at the time, be pushed into the Great Depression at the age when you finally start to remotely comprehend the world, and then be drafted to fight insane Japanese men on the beaches of Iwo Jima. Kids born in 1929 knew a prosperous United States by the time they were in their mid teens. The kids that had to go fight in the Pacific and Western Europe got it much rougher (although some had to go fight in Korea).
Posted on 3/4/19 at 4:15 pm to NawlinsTiger9
Looks like about any year could be it. Depends on your perspective. I lived through it so far.
Posted on 3/4/19 at 4:17 pm to jeffsdad
depression years 1929- 1941. 
Posted on 3/4/19 at 4:18 pm to 225bred
quote:and millions!!
2017, the year Trump took over, millions have been dying everyday since.
Some people, how stupid was it for them to say that?
Posted on 3/4/19 at 4:22 pm to DemonKA3268
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and millions!!
Some people, how stupid was it for them to say that?
Real funny, a-hole.
I lost a lot of good friends due to Net Neutrality being repealed.
We managed to get by, but the Paris Climate pullout saw the rest of my community annihilated.
I have to drive my F350 around the bodies in the streets everyday just to get to work and back.
Posted on 3/4/19 at 4:23 pm to bigwheel
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depression years 1929- 1941.
Not live through. Born in. Someone born in 1941 never remembered the depression, first memory may be V-Day, doesn’t go to Korea, and would be in his late 20s by the time the draft starts for Vietnam to where he could easily avoid it compared to his younger counterparts. I’d pick being born in 1941 over any other year before it.
This post was edited on 3/4/19 at 4:24 pm
Posted on 3/4/19 at 4:26 pm to NawlinsTiger9
During the Black Plague in Europe was probably pretty awfuk
Posted on 3/4/19 at 4:27 pm to Fat and Happy
born in 1933, does that qualify me 
Posted on 3/4/19 at 4:28 pm to NawlinsTiger9
1920. Prohibition pissed everybody off
Posted on 3/4/19 at 4:29 pm to NawlinsTiger9
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I’m going with 1896. You get the first World War, the Depression, and very few remarkable milestones in technology or medicine had been hit.
Just comparatively, the US had about 320,000 casualties (killed and wounded only) in WWI with about 116,000 dead. The US Population was 103 million in 1917.
The total combat deaths in the Civil War were approximately 620,000 and the war was fought on US soil with the civilian casualties and victims that go along with that. US population at the time was about 31 million.
I generally think that warfare has become less and less horrific, if only by degree, as time goes by (but WWI is probably an exception to that). Still, I think that those born in 1847 (+/- 2 yrs) were likely born at a more difficult time in the US.
But both those periods likely pale in comparison to the hardship suffered by native Americans at various times during the 1500s and 1600s when they were succumbing by the millions to old world diseases for which they had no adequate immune response.
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