Who Survived?
This was an email sent to me by my cousin. It's one of those emails that friends and family decide to send back and forth that I would normally consider spam. This one? I loved reading it! Having been born in 1961, it really hit home for me.
Happy Birthday Dr. Paul!
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TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and did not get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As infants and children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because...
...WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms.
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who did not had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
If YOU are one of them CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good. While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?
nice article
Very nice! Thank you.
An Innocent Time
Hello imheretoo, thank you for reminding me of things that get harder to remember each year that goes by.
We did watch some TV on Saturday mornings. Our heroes were Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, the Lone Ranger, Gene Autry, Tom Mix, John Wayne and yes even Ronald Reagan. We learned fair play and to not fight unless it was in self defense.
We respected our neighbors and shared homemade bread. Other mothers watched after all of us as if we were their own. We played all day in the sun and would get so tanned that you couldn’t see us in the dark. We respected our teachers and believed in our history and heritage. These were innocent times. The future looked bright!
I joined the Air Force right out of high school at 17 ½ years old. I wanted to follow in my father’s foot-steps; he was a tail gunner in WWII. I wanted to serve my country.
10 days after my 18th birthday, John Kennedy was assassinated; I was a kid among men and I watched grown men cry. By the time I was twenty, we were off to war to fight the good fight. Too many of us never returned or were “damaged†beyond repair. Then Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated within 2 months of each other. I wasn’t even 23 yet but I already knew something was terribly wrong.
Since that time, war has been the norm; strike first at anyone who has something we want. Government, led by the central bankers, attacks our own people to steal and plunder our wealth.
I’m not going to bore you with my life story but it shouldn’t be too hard to figure what shaped my ideas and philosophies of life. I have been fighting against “the system†for years, mostly alone and as an outcast but always trying to be true to myself.
Dr Paul is my hope for that brighter future that was stolen from us. Those who have perpetrated these crimes against us need to be stopped and punished. This may be our last chance, at least my last chance, to see that bright future promised to us in our youth. This has gone on long enough. It’s time to take our country back.
Best Regards,
Anti-Stupid
80s and 90s?
I was born in '86, and I experienced most of those things too (not the lead paint). The whole poisoned Halloween candy thing is so overblown... maybe it is also an exaggeration to assume that most parents are as afraid as the news media wants them to be.
"To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world."
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"To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world."
That's cause you were likely to die of something else anyway
At the same time children were handling cauldrons of boiling water on laundry day, their mothers were dismantling their beds monthly to wash them down with vinegar.
We didn't start the fire.
Defend Liberty!