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re: Do you remember where you were fifty years ago today?
Posted on 7/20/19 at 11:33 am to 9th life
Posted on 7/20/19 at 11:33 am to 9th life
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So sick of baby boomers thinking they’re the end-all be-all of everything.
Hurry up and retire, old man.
Why can I read this post and - no seeing the name - reduce it to one of three absolute dipshits who regularly post here.
You're on the list - not an honorable, intelligent, moral, charitable, unbigoted bone in your body.
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Posted on 7/20/19 at 12:01 pm to scrooster
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Life was good. It really was.
Sounds like you could have lived in my community, Scroster...and couldn't have told the difference. It is virtually impossible to describe that life to those who have not experienced it. I remember the moon landing, but didn't really appreciate it. I think I was at Jr. College Summer School; first time I had left the house. Getting ready to fulfill the demands of a football scholarship (partial, 150 lbs. worth
) and fall camp. Drank my first beers...highly problematic. German/Irish. They say easy times produce character and societal weakness...but such can also produce gratitude. A lot of us Boomers took our slack and blessings, and ran with em'. Many pushed the 'something missing' envelope; mostly because of the drug (subjective perception) factor. We explored the potential of being a Perceptive Being, and the feelings therein...just like we pushed the exploratory envelope re the moon. And we still are. Right here on this Forum.
C. Krauthammer nailed it, noting that 'if you get your politics wrong, it goes down from there' (paraphrase). Humanity is on the verge of monumental potential and profound change. I oft ponder that if I had a choice for a next life and retain what I have gained in this one...would I choose to be born in 1950...or now. Hard choice. And one I think I'll likely have to make. With the counsel of the Good Lord at my side.
So poignant, and bittersweet. Thinking of Ben Coleman for some reason. Appreciating our challenges, as well as our blessings, is key to a satisfying life. And death. Good wishes to all who push the envelope, in whatever fashion; Adam and Eve at the fore.
Posted on 7/20/19 at 12:01 pm to scrooster
Swimming around my dad's balls I guess.
Posted on 7/20/19 at 12:06 pm to scrooster
Learning to walk.
Posted on 7/20/19 at 1:29 pm to scrooster
Me and My Dad were out back, working in our garden, he was teaching me how to be thorough, pulling weeds. My Mom yelled out the back door that it was happening.
We brought our tools and leaned them up against the back porch, and went inside to watch.
About the time it started happening, my little brother came running in and said that there was a snake in the yard. frick landing on the moon, that aint half as fun as a snake in the yard. So, I had to watch the replays.
We brought our tools and leaned them up against the back porch, and went inside to watch.
About the time it started happening, my little brother came running in and said that there was a snake in the yard. frick landing on the moon, that aint half as fun as a snake in the yard. So, I had to watch the replays.
Posted on 7/20/19 at 1:39 pm to scrooster
Wasn’t born yet...
Posted on 7/20/19 at 1:53 pm to scrooster
I was in the basement den of my grandparents and my aunt was upstairs giving birth to one of my cousins....mustve been 100 people in that little 3 bedroom, 1 bath house LOL....
When the initial launch took place we all ran out into the yard thinking we might be able to see something (I was 4 so I was doing what everyone was). I think I remember some of the adults claiming they could see something but we were in Atlanta and I doubt they could. My sister though was running in the yard, barefooted as we were wont to be in 1969 and summer.....and she stepped on a bone my grandfather had given his dog, the bone penetrated her entire foot and the screaming, the blood and the panic in all of the adults left as much an impression as the launch and the moon landing.....
When the initial launch took place we all ran out into the yard thinking we might be able to see something (I was 4 so I was doing what everyone was). I think I remember some of the adults claiming they could see something but we were in Atlanta and I doubt they could. My sister though was running in the yard, barefooted as we were wont to be in 1969 and summer.....and she stepped on a bone my grandfather had given his dog, the bone penetrated her entire foot and the screaming, the blood and the panic in all of the adults left as much an impression as the launch and the moon landing.....
Posted on 7/20/19 at 1:54 pm to scrooster
The lobby of the Disneyland hotel
Posted on 7/20/19 at 1:58 pm to Wtxtiger
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Taking your girlfriend out cruising through town then parking after. It was such a wonderful time. All ruined by leftest.
I'd posit that most of it was ruined for you by the passage of some 49 years.....if you were 16 today you'd be waxing nostalgic in 33 years...all humans fortunate enough to live to be 49 years old become jaded with time....
Posted on 7/20/19 at 2:00 pm to germandawg
My story was better. 
seriously though, your story was good, and I can almost see it happening, damn, things are different nowadays.
seriously though, your story was good, and I can almost see it happening, damn, things are different nowadays.
Posted on 7/20/19 at 2:07 pm to scrooster
I wasn’t alive( b. 1983), but the historical events I will never forget, and most ‘millenials’, are 9/11 and when OBL was killed.
Posted on 7/20/19 at 2:08 pm to scrooster
I was -10. I'll never forget it.
Posted on 7/20/19 at 2:10 pm to scrooster
Dong Ha forward combat base(FOB) RNV. Remember it well.
This post was edited on 7/20/19 at 2:51 pm
Posted on 7/20/19 at 2:20 pm to scrooster
I was still on the tit...Was only 6 months old...
Posted on 7/20/19 at 2:42 pm to scrooster
I was 5 years old in Huntsville of all places, so I can remember it very clearly for a youngun.
We knew about the space program before our abc's.
We knew about the space program before our abc's.
Posted on 7/20/19 at 2:44 pm to footswitch
Don't remember it, but I was still swimming about in Dad's nut.
Posted on 7/20/19 at 3:06 pm to scrooster
Pretty sure I was shitting my diaper, since I was 5 months old.
Posted on 7/20/19 at 3:16 pm to RCDfan1950
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Sounds like you could have lived in my community, Scroster...and couldn't have told the difference
And also mine - I still believe that the 50s were the last decade of full throated patriotism from the overwhelming majority of the nation.
Political differences were vigorous, but civil - nobody challenged another's motives, the just argued that they were wrong and tried to convince them otherwise.
Politics stopped at the water's edge - the POTUS was respected even after robust election campaigns.
Nobody called each other vicious names - not in public anyway. People were polite to each other - and expected civility in return.
The 50s were a glorious experience - nothing but liberty and freedom and opportunity on the horizon.
And yes, we suffered from a lack of appreciation for the plight of blacks. However, we changed that attitude in a historically instantaneous manner. A decade or so in the 10,000 yr history of modern mankind's advancement is literally instantaneous.
If I could go back to any time in history - it would be the late 1700s as a mountain man.
If I were restricted to a decade that I had lived thru it would be the '50s.
Posted on 7/20/19 at 3:18 pm to 9th life
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So sick of baby boomers thinking they’re the end-all be-all of everything.
Hurry up and retire, old man.
From a Gen Xer...go frick yourself.
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