Amazing post that puts a lot in perspective. They also lived through Polio and Tuberculosis. Yet somehow this is supposedly worse. It is not. The over the top reaction just makes it seem worse. Never in human history have we mass quarantined healthy people!
My grandma escaped Nazi Germany by crawling through sewer tunnels while England was bombing overhead, and hiding in piles of dead Hitler Youth soldiers to evade patrols, when she was 16. PTSD is so strong she can't even watch Indiana Jones. Nothing in my life will ever be that bad, and I accept that.
As much as I'd like to know more from a firsthand source, I have to accept that they've been through too much and have had no outlet to get it off their chests, so they've accepted they're gonna keep it in.
I'd love to know more but the memories are too painful. Not as painful as listening to MSNBC though.
Something else funny to think about is someone born in 1950. They were 15 when Vietnam started and became the hippie generation. Anti-war, free love, pot smoking, civil rights movement crowd. These are the bad boomers were told. How did one of the most liberal generations turn into old conservatives? Young people seem perplexed. What happened? They grew the fuck up and all that free love and drug using went out the window.
I completely agree. People who act like the world is ending right now are totally out of touch with history.
Someone correct me if I'm mistaken, but didn't the black plague kill nearly a quarter of the world population?
This is the problem in reality, younger generations have no perspective by design of the elites ands communists and globalists.
Hell, if we had perspective we’d have already risen up weeks ago across the US.
They learn all kinds of history... like how white people are the devil and America is hell and they must destroy everything around them.
Amazing post that puts a lot in perspective. They also lived through Polio and Tuberculosis. Yet somehow this is supposedly worse. It is not. The over the top reaction just makes it seem worse. Never in human history have we mass quarantined healthy people!
My grandma escaped Nazi Germany by crawling through sewer tunnels while England was bombing overhead, and hiding in piles of dead Hitler Youth soldiers to evade patrols, when she was 16. PTSD is so strong she can't even watch Indiana Jones. Nothing in my life will ever be that bad, and I accept that.
I would love to sit down and talk to your grandma. I wouldn’t even speak, but I could listen for hours.
She's the nicest, friendliest, most wholesome person I know. She'd tell a meth junkie to pick up his litter because it's wrong to litter.
Unfortunately when it comes to tales of a bygone era she won't talk about those times. It's too stressful, even now. The price of heroism.
Sounds like my dad and how he never wanted to talk about his experience in Vietnam
As much as I'd like to know more from a firsthand source, I have to accept that they've been through too much and have had no outlet to get it off their chests, so they've accepted they're gonna keep it in.
I'd love to know more but the memories are too painful. Not as painful as listening to MSNBC though.
I am at a hotel and CNN was on for five minutes...that was excruciating!
When I was a kid I had a babysitter that was born in 1889. She had no fear, of anything.
How old was she!!?
How the hell old are YOU!?!?
I was born at the height of the Cuban Missle crisis.
That's not even that old
I imagine since the Apache raids dropped off she mellowed out.
Back when Oklahoma was called Indian Territory
I survived the great toilet paper shortage of 2020
A shining example of bravery in Drumpf's Amerikkka
Something else funny to think about is someone born in 1950. They were 15 when Vietnam started and became the hippie generation. Anti-war, free love, pot smoking, civil rights movement crowd. These are the bad boomers were told. How did one of the most liberal generations turn into old conservatives? Young people seem perplexed. What happened? They grew the fuck up and all that free love and drug using went out the window.
My Grandfather. Born March 17, 1900. Second generation Irish immigrant. Think of him often.
Great post