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- >>
- >> That's us!
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- >>
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- >>
- >>
- >> 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
- >> 1925 - 1970 :
- >>>
- >>>
- >> 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
- >> 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 colored
- >> 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, 22 rifles for our 12th, rode horses,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
- >> 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.
- >>
- >>
- >> While you are
- >> at it, forward it to your kids, so they will know how brave and lucky
- >> their parents
- >> were.
- >>
- >>
- >> 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?"
- >> For those that
- >> prefer to think that God is not watching over us...go ahead and delete
- >> this.
- >> For the rest
- >> of us.....
- >> please pass this
- >> on.
- >>
- >>
- >>
- >>
- >>
- >>
- >>
- >>
- >>
- >> <>
- >>
- >>
- >>
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- >> No virus found in this message.
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- >>
- >>
- >>
- >> __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus
- >> signature database 4662 (20091205) __________
- >>
- >> The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus.
- >>
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- >>
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