No matter what our kids and the new generation think about us, WE ARE AWESOME !!! OUR Lives are LIVING PROOF !!! � To Those of Us Born At the end of this email is a quote of the month by Jay Leno. ~~~~~~~~~ TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1930s, '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s!! � 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 coloured 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 we forgot the brakes.. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.. � � We did not have Play Stations, Nintendos 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. � � 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 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
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 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 bestrisk-takers, problem solvers, and inventors ever. � The past 50 to 85 years have 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 1925-1970, 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. � Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it ? ~~~~~~~ The quote of the month by Jay Leno:
"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"
� | September 1933 - Adolf Hitler breaks ground on his ambitious plans to link all major German cities with highways. This ceremony kicked off construction of the Frankfurt-am-Maine - Darmstadt/Mannheim highway.
Betty White at home with her dog in 1952Titanic survivors taken on to the USS RaptorAn iceberg photographed in 1912 bearing an unmistakable mark of black and red paint. It is believed that this is the iceberg that sank the Titanic.Ham the chimp returns to Earth following his historic 16 minute space flight in 1961.The rather luxurious seating area of the submarine, The Protector, in 1902.Medical students pose with a cadaver around 1890.The fuel tanks of the B-24H Liberator "Little Warrior" explode over Germany after being hit by anti-aircraft guns in 1944.The Kennedy family leave the funeral of John F. Kennedy in 1963.Native American couple, Situwuka and Katkwachsnea in 1912.Camp Commandant Amon Goeth, infamous from the movie "Schindler's List", on the balcony of his house overlooking Plaszow labor camp, Poland. 1943-44.Construction of the Sydney Opera House in 1966.1945 - German POWs weep and sit in disgust as they watch footage shot at a German concentration camp.June 1915, Gallipoli: a Turkish sniper/sharpshooter, dressed as a tree, is captured by two Anzacs.Dinosaurs are transported on the Hudson River to the 1964 World's Fair.The Golden Gate Bridge around 1935.Children for sale in Chicago, 1948. Some parents sold their children due to poverty.Mourners pay their respect to slain civil rights leader, Medgar Evars in 1963. His killer was finally convicted in 1994.
