I don't remember much of anything good about the old days. They're gone-
that's good. Mostly I remember JFK's death, duck and cover drills, Cuban
Missiles, Vietnam body counts, Selma, Watts, Newark, then RFK and Martin
Luther King,

John H.

"Hagstar" wrote in message
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I don't remember much of anything good about the old days. They're gone-
that's good. Mostly I remember JFK's death, duck and cover drills, Cuban
Missiles, Vietnam body counts, Selma, Watts, Newark, then RFK and Martin
Luther King,

John H.

Not much good about these days either, John.

Today we have daily scandals in DC, duct tape and garbage bags, terror
threats real and imagined, kids killing kids for their shoes, people killing
people for sport or as a form of suicide, the Axis of Evil, Katrina victims,
widespread firestorms, Iraq and Afghanistan body counts and a choice of
presidential candidates that is really no choice at all.

All in the way you choose to look at things. In some ways the Hippies were
right.. but, like most anyone, they sold out to the system and the almighty
dollar in the end. And the cold war was better than the one we're in now
(and is also seemingly making a comeback), in that at least the Soviets had
more or less the same morals that we did, and placed the same importance on
the lives of at least themselves and their families. This century's crazies
don't care, whether they are Islamic extremist crazies or college and high
school student crazies.

All that aside, nobody used the words "good old days". Only "old days",
when we earned what we got, instead of expecting it to be given to us just
for the asking. I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I thought that was
better.

C'est la vie.

Stay safe, John.

"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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Not much good about these days either, John.

Today we have daily scandals in DC, duct tape and garbage bags, terror
threats real and imagined, kids killing kids for their shoes, people
killing people for sport or as a form of suicide, the Axis of Evil,
Katrina victims, widespread firestorms, Iraq and Afghanistan body counts
and a choice of presidential candidates that is really no choice at all.

Well, sure, but other than that, things are pretty good, right?

I mean, we -are- enjoying the longest period of strong prosperity this world
has seen in a l-o-n-g time. With the exception of energy, material goods
are cheaper in relative terms than they have ever been!

So quitcherbitchin!

"Hagstar" wrote in message
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I don't remember much of anything good about the old days. They're gone-
that's good. Mostly I remember JFK's death, duck and cover drills, Cuban
Missiles, Vietnam body counts, Selma, Watts, Newark, then RFK and Martin
Luther King,

John H.


I remember JFK.. I remember his and dream, and Americans
putting a man on the moon...

I remember AM radio when it was king.

Life was good.

I remember JFK.. I remember his and dream, and Americans
putting a man on the moon...

I remember AM radio when it was king.

Life was good.



Hey,
AM radio is king now.
How does it go? Dope smoking, long hair, maggot infested, hippy FM jocks?

Tom

"Uncle Peter" wrote in message
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Life was good.




I'm a very late Boomer- JFK disappeared early on, the rest of the '60s in
NYC area anyway was tumultuous, putting nicely. Cousin Brucie was god
though.

John H.

Hagstar wrote:
I'm a very late Boomer- JFK disappeared early on,

I was in the 6th grade when JFK was killed and the
Beatles first came on the scene.
It was a very interesting time to be growing up.

Watched every space shot there was, just eat it up.
Got my first transistor radio for my birthday
just before Alan Shepard's first sub orbital flight,
a little green Motorola that I still have.
In the forth grade my teacher asked me to bring my
radio to class the next day so we could listen to John Glen
first real orbital flight... I got to sit in class all day listening
with my ear phone with instructions to interrupt if anything
interesting happened. I was the RADIO MAN, it ruined me.

73 all,

Ron
http://radioheaven.homestead.com/

"Ron in Radio Heaven" wrote in message
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I was in the 6th grade when JFK was killed and the
Beatles first came on the scene.
It was a very interesting time to be growing up.

Watched every space shot there was, just eat it up.
Got my first transistor radio for my birthday
just before Alan Shepard's first sub orbital flight,
a little green Motorola that I still have.
In the forth grade my teacher asked me to bring my
radio to class the next day so we could listen to John Glen
first real orbital flight... I got to sit in class all day listening
with my ear phone with instructions to interrupt if anything
interesting happened. I was the RADIO MAN, it ruined me.

73 all,

Ron
http://radioheaven.homestead.com/



We had some cool heroes back then with the space program going on! I don't
think too many things in my life have given me the same feeling of seeing
Neil Armstrong on a old black and white tv put his foot down on the moon
other than the birth of my children. There will never ever be greater test
pilots and astronauts than we had in the 50s and 60s, all the rest just walk
in their shadows.

BH

Brian Hill wrote:
I don't think too many things in my life have given me the same feeling of seeing
Neil Armstrong on a old black and white tv put his foot down on the moon


That was one of the best birthday presents I've ever gotten,
July 20 1969 was my 17th birthday.
I had to threaten to quit my summer job at the grocery store
cause the boss wanted me to work that night.
I've got a pretty good collection of Apollo 11 stuff, one of these
days I'm going to take some photos of it and do a web page.

Ron
http://radioheaven.homestead.com/

Ron in Radio Heaven wrote:
Brian Hill wrote:
I don't think too many things in my life have given me the same
feeling of seeing Neil Armstrong on a old black and white tv put his
foot down on the moon

That was one of the best birthday presents I've ever gotten,
July 20 1969 was my 17th birthday.
I had to threaten to quit my summer job at the grocery store
cause the boss wanted me to work that night.
I've got a pretty good collection of Apollo 11 stuff, one of these
days I'm going to take some photos of it and do a web page.

Ron
http://radioheaven.homestead.com/
I can still remember that night watching the first moon walk on an old
BW Emerson TV in my basement while shooting pool with friends. I
repaired the set and put a large speaker in the cabinet(small console)
and had an FM converter on top made by Regency. For me growing up in the
50's was a gift I will always cherish.