When you were born matters what you have read and seen over the last 100 or years? Yeah, it does especially if you were born at the turn of the century, in that you have seen just about everything that matters to humanity both good and bad in your life time. A change so great that it is likely never to happen again. From the beginning of flight to space travel, in medicine to technology and world wars.
Born 1925 - 1955The best years to be born in the history of Earth & we got to experience it all. Thank God for all the times, the adventures, wars won, technology developed. Generations after future generations will never experience what we did. What a generation we turned out to be.
To Those of Us Born
1925 - 1955:
At the end of this email is a quote of the month by Jay Leno.
If you don't read anything else, Please read what he said.
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TO ALL THE
KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE
1900, 1930’s, 40’s and 50’s !!
First, we survived being born to mothers who may have smoked and/or drank - While they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't 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, locks on doors or cabinets, and, when we rode our bikes,
we had baseball caps, not helmets, on our heads.
As infants and children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes. Riding in the back of a pick- up truck 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, real butter and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar.
And we weren't overweight.
KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE
1900, 1930’s, 40’s and 50’s !!
First, we survived being born to mothers who may have smoked and/or drank - While they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't 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, locks on doors or cabinets, and, when we rode our bikes,
we had baseball caps, not helmets, on our heads.
As infants and children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes. Riding in the back of a pick- up truck 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, real butter and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar.
And we weren't overweight.
WHY? Because we were always outside playing...that's why! 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 OKAY.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them down the hill,
Only to find out that we forgot about brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Play Stations, Nintendo and X-boxes. There were no video games, No 150 channels on cable, No video movies Or DVDs, No surround-sound or CDs, No cell phones, No personal computers, No Internet and No chat rooms.
and, we were OKAY.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them down the hill,
Only to find out that we forgot about brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Play Stations, Nintendo and X-boxes. There were no video games, No 150 channels on cable, No video movies Or DVDs, No surround-sound or CDs, No cell phones, No personal computers, No Internet and No chat rooms.
All we had were our FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and lost teeth, and there were No law suits from those accidents.
We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping-pong paddles, or just a bare hand, and no one would call child services to report abuse. We ate worms, and mud pies and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,22 rifles for our 12th, rode horses, 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 every one made the team. Those who didn't 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 60 to 85 year shave seen 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 those born
between 1925 &1955, 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.
~~~~~~~
The quote of the month
by Jay Leno:
"With hurricanes, tornadoes, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of Coronavirus, terrorist
attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and lost teeth, and there were No law suits from those accidents.
We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping-pong paddles, or just a bare hand, and no one would call child services to report abuse. We ate worms, and mud pies and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,22 rifles for our 12th, rode horses, 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 every one made the team. Those who didn't 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 60 to 85 year shave seen 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 those born
between 1925 &1955, 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.
~~~~~~~
The quote of the month
by Jay Leno:
"With hurricanes, tornadoes, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of Coronavirus, terrorist
attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"
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