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Editorial See other Editorial Articles Title: For Those of You Born 1930 - 1979 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 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, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking. As infants & 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 were not 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 Play Stations, 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 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 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/our parents were. The quote of the month is 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?"
Poster Comment: I wasn't even that wild of a kid, but today I'd be committed. I played with fire(I was involved in two fires but the other kids did it, not me), blew up army men and plastic tanks and airplanes with firecrackers, rode minibikes and horses (and fell off of a minibike and cut my knee open), accidentally shot my friends with my BB gun, rode in the back of my father's pickup truck, shot arrows at rabbits (and missed), went swimming unsupervised in lakes, went camping 100 miles away with friends, hitchhiked, stuffed three of us in a styrofoam Sea Snark sailboat and took it on a lake...and this isn't the half of it.
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~ I've shocked young people at work by speaking to their programmed-to-hate-guns brains how my brother and I, as teenagers, could walk down the road towards the countryside with rifles/shotguns in hand for some duck hunting or just plinking in the woods ... how one of the proudest moments of my dad's life was when I earned my first rifle by drawing blood on my first deer hunt *s (he was most proud 'cause I was in a party of 15 and the only one to bring a deer down *VBS*)
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