Funny......... I can remember 30 years ago sitting at the bar at the E-Club at
29
Palms CA listening to 2 grizzaled old Master Sgts lamenting how the "younger
generation" had all gone to hell...........If you are around 50 years old, they
were talking about YOU!
Ed (at the time, there was a 2-year waiting list at Camp Pendelton for Marines
wanting to go to 'Nam)
"Albaugh, Neil" wrote:
> Dick;
>
> I suppose so but back then we weren't driving around shooting people or
> dealing drugs. At worst, we drank a few beers, listened to Jerry Lee Lewis,
> and drag raced. Our T- shirts were plain white (OK- maybe a few grease
> stains) with a pack of Luckies rolled up in the sleeve. Ours didn't have
> insulting slogans or language on them, either-- . At the drive- in on
> Saturday night there might have been an occasional fistfight. Things weren't
> settled with a full magazine of AK-47 rounds. I really feel sorry for kids
> growing up these days. There really is a difference between "then" and "now"
> and it's not good. BTW, after Pearl Harbor the recruiting offices were
> jammed with young men wanting to enlist. On the news this week the military
> reported that now they just can't fill their recruiting quotas-- what's
> different between then and now?
>
> Regards, Neil
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick J [mailto:lsr_man@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 10:38 AM
> To: Albaugh, Neil; 'RYNDBOYS@aol.com'; land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: young drivers.
>
> --- "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com> wrote:
>
> "a question of their behavior --
> > antisocial, inconsiderate, and disrespectful.
> > Loud annoying "
>
> Yup, just as I thought. I think Plato and
> Socrates said that same thing a few thousand
> years ago. And I think the same language was
> used back during the Alan Freed hearings when the
> government thought Rock and Roll should be
> stopped because it was destroying our youth and
> undermining the American way of life.
>
> You just gotta be tolerant of those kids. Sooner
> or later, they'll grow up.
>
> Dick J
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