People my age (Baby Boomers) like to talk about the 'good ol' days' when we were kids growing up.
Sure, we had a lot of freedom,
we got to play outdoors with no electronic devices and didn't have to return home in the summer
(other than for meal breaks) until dark.
Sure sounds like an idyllic upbringing.
But out there in our adult's world:
there was the cold war,
the Cuban Missile Crisis,
the fight for desegregation,
Vietnam
and political upheaval.
We were just shielded from the real world by our parents.
I loved being a kid back then,
but it might have been better for us all if we had seen more of the real world.
Maybe then we wouldn't keep making the same mistakes and putting our country in a state of near civil war.
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