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Subject: [stjoseph1971] To Those of Us Born 1930 - 1979
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No matter what our kids and the new generation think about us,
WE ARE AWESOME !!!!
OUR LIFE IS LIVING PROOF !!!! *
To Those of*Us Born*1930 - 1979 *
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.*
Very well stated, Mr. Leno..*
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE*1930's, 40's, 50's,*60's and 70's!!*
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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.*
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Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs
covered*with bright colored lead-base 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.*
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As infants & 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 pickup 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 made with Lard, white bread, real butter and bacon. We
drank*FLAV- OR- AID *made with real white sugar. And, we weren't overweight.
WHY?*
Because we were always outside playing....that' s why!*
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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.*
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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*
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We did not have Play stations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video
games,
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 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 these 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.*
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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.*
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The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.* What can
kids today do besides push buttons?*
*
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.*****
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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?'***
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