This is dedicated to
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>Those Born 1930-1979!
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>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
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>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-based paints.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank koolade made
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>sugar, but we weren't overweight because .
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>WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
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>We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we
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>back when the streetlights came on.
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>No one was able to reach us all day.
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>And we were O.K.
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>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
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>bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
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>We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at
all,
>no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound,
CD's
>or Ipods, no cell phones!, no personal computers , no Internet or chat
>rooms.......
>WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
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>We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
>lawsuits from these accidents.
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>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,
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>made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told
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>would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
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>We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or
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>the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
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>Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who
didn't
>had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
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>The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard
of.
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>They actually sided with the law!
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>These gene rations 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.
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>We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
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>HOW TO
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>DEAL WITH IT ALL!
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>If YOU are one of them . . CONGRATULATIONS!
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>You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow
up
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>kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our
lives
>for our own good
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>And 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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>Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't
it?!
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>The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:
>"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of
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>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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