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So true!

Roy.

Young Whippersnappers!!!

I had a 'man to man' chat with my 13 yr old grandson 'tother day Min, about what he wanted to do after finishing school, not unreasonably he has no fixed ideas as yet and he asked me about my working life, having in the past laughed with me about some of the things I told him.
I told him I would give him but a single piece of advise, 'that it was better to have lived before you die than to die before you have lived'.

Roy.

Reasonable advice.

I wouldn't want to be a kid today after we've screwed up the whole planet.

I'm reading a book at the moment Min by a great British broadcaster and naturalist, David Attenborough. He joined the BBC at the moment when they were just starting to broadcast after WW2, along with his compatriots he set the standards that later staff followed.
He was the right man, in the right place, at the right time, that opportunity will never come again.
For the future there will be openings to help correct and reverse our mistakes, our job is to see that our youth is upto the task.

Roy.

I suppose we are free to hope.

Trust you! But then again Min, think of all the young men and women who are putting their lives on the line in foreign parts, yes, we have reason to hope my friend.

Roy.

Digit wrote:
Trust you! But then again Min, think of all the young men and women who are putting their lives on the line in foreign parts, yes, we have reason to hope my friend.

Roy.

i don't know how it is over there Digit, but i'd put alot more hope in punkers than in military types. In the US Army there are more members of street gangs than in all of LA or NYC. Punkers, however, are often enterprising business types or energetic activists for myriad causes. Now i know many military folks who were never in a street gang and never behaved like the dregs of the military that so many scandals are made of, but military types are overwhelmingly "in the box" types while punkers and other "social outcast" sub-cultures inherently forge new ways of living.

We did do a lot of "standard-lowering" when Bush was having trouble scaring up enough cannon-fodder.

Then they came up with a brilliant solution. They wrecked the world economy and gave kids no other choice than to risk getting their balls blown off for Halliburton's profit margin.

It can take all sorts Min, some of the best Roses grow on dung heaps.

Roy.

Thanks to Bush we have plenty of dung heaps.


I'll have to look and see if there are any roses growing.

Minimalist wrote:Thanks to Bush we have plenty of dung heaps.

I'll have to look and see if there are any roses growing.

I would like to assure you that there are a few roses growing out there. Some of us youngsters had the distinct advantage of being born in places where modernism was a bit slower to take hold, towns where older men still gathered to play dominoes every day at the barber shop and life lessons were issued free of charge.

I mention the barber shop because, for me, it really was one of the most influential places in my moral education. My old man was always off in Texas or Louisiana working for Halliburton (funny, huh?) and so it was up to Murray Green (U.S.M.C, WWII, Purple Heart) and his band of old timers to educate me on how to be a respectable southern man.

I can't be the only one that listened.