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Originally Posted by SAMIAM
Many of us remember times when we were worry free. Dad worked and mom ran the home and managed the family. Kids played outside until dark, getting dirty, eating sweets and riding bikes without helmets. They called adults "sir" and "ma'am" and had respect for police.
The only time flags were flown at half staff was was for the death of a president
senior official or member of SCOTUS....not for hollywood stars and and professional athletes.
Republicans and democrats had different points of view back then as they do now but respected each other and always found common ground when it involved the good of our country.
I could keep going but some will remember those times and for those that don't, I wish they could have, because it was a different world
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I also yearn to go back to those times of my childhood. But then I wonder about stress that other people felt, but from which I was blissfully insulated: Vietnam, fear of a nuclear attack, women unable to get good jobs, racism worse than today's.
Similarly, I was listening to Springsteen's Factory today--about the incredible pain of working in a factory in our country's halcyon days. Jobs that we all bemoan the loss of now. But let's face it--they were brutal, even if the money was good. I don't know if today is better or worse, but we've made a lot of progress in a lot of areas.
Early in the morning factory whistle blows
Man rises from bed and puts on his clothes
Man takes his lunch, walks out in the morning light
It's the working, the working, just the working life
Through the mansions of fear, through the mansions of pain
I see my daddy walking through them factory gates in the rain
Factory takes his hearing, factory gives him life
The working, the working, just the working life
End of the day, factory whistle cries
Men walk through these gates with death in their eyes
And you just better believe, boy
Somebody's gonna get hurt tonight
It's the working, the working, just the working life
'Cause it's the working, the working, just the working life