Born 1925 - 195 5     The best years to be born in the history of Earth & we got to experience it all. Thank God for all the times, the adventures, wars won, technology developed. Generations after future generations will never experience what we did. What a generation we turned out to be.     To Those of Us Born  1925 - 1955:  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.  ~~~~~~~~~  TO ALL THE  KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE  1930’s, 40’s and 50’s !!  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 that we forgot about brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem. We did not Have  Play Stations, Nintendo  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 Lost 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 60 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 &1955, 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 this 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, tornadoes,  fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the  country from one end to another, and with the threat of coronavirus and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"       For those who  prefer to think that God is not  watching over us...  go ahead and delete this.  For the rest of us.. please pass this on.