01-16-2009, 04:52 PM
More good points Menehune, but may I less eloquently add from when I was 20:
Memories of school drills - under your desk in case of nuclear attack.
War? - Cuban Missile Crisis, Nikita banging his shoe.. You may be inconvenienced at the airport, but we "knew" nuclear holocaust was a real possibility
Racism? - trust me kids today have NEVER seen it like we lived it.
Insurance - sure if you paid for it, sure don't remember seeing it as a job benefit, let alone government.
Retirement - most of the people I knew worked - and then they died (like my grandfather)
The assassination of an American president was something we lived - not read about.
Forget what it was called, but there was government food distributed, but it was also shared. Had to be creative with all that cheese, canned meat, powdered milk.
Inflation was as much a headline as bailouts are.
I guess my point is our list was as long as yours, but perhaps we saw it more as a stepping stone rather than stumbling block from which to host a pity party.
And in those days, coming to Hawaii didn't even make it to dream level - but I'm here (and not leaving).
David
Ninole Resident
Memories of school drills - under your desk in case of nuclear attack.
War? - Cuban Missile Crisis, Nikita banging his shoe.. You may be inconvenienced at the airport, but we "knew" nuclear holocaust was a real possibility
Racism? - trust me kids today have NEVER seen it like we lived it.
Insurance - sure if you paid for it, sure don't remember seeing it as a job benefit, let alone government.
Retirement - most of the people I knew worked - and then they died (like my grandfather)
The assassination of an American president was something we lived - not read about.
Forget what it was called, but there was government food distributed, but it was also shared. Had to be creative with all that cheese, canned meat, powdered milk.
Inflation was as much a headline as bailouts are.
I guess my point is our list was as long as yours, but perhaps we saw it more as a stepping stone rather than stumbling block from which to host a pity party.
And in those days, coming to Hawaii didn't even make it to dream level - but I'm here (and not leaving).
David
Ninole Resident
Ninole Resident