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[Yankee Traveler]

my mom said if you have nothing good to say, just write it on the sportshoop site … but I’m not gonna even do that

ok … she died decades ago, but I know what she meant

He was a football fan and in light of that....



Yeah...that's all I got.

 

[BigKen]

My mother was barely 5' tall. She was one tough SOB because she welded keels on liberty ships that were built during WWII. My father was pipefitter on those same liberty ships. I visited one the last one remaining in San Francisco and they took me all the way down to the bilge so I could see the work she did. They had removed all of the overhead asbestos wrap that my father and other men over 6' had to wrap after they finished the piping.

My father died at 52 of COPD and my mother of lung cancer at 78. They never once complained about the work they did. They were proud of being part of the war effort. The greatest generation indeed.

She said very little. Spoke French as well as she did English. She loved her Naragansett.

 

[realityball]

My mother was barely 5' tall. She was one tough SOB because she welded keels on liberty ships that were built during WWII. My father was pipefitter on those same liberty ships. I visited one the last one remaining in San Francisco and they took me all the way down to the bilge so I could see the work she did. They had removed all of the overhead asbestos wrap that my father and other men over 6' had to wrap after they finished the piping.

My father died at 52 of COPD and my mother of lung cancer at 78. They never once complained about the work they did. They were proud of being part of the war effort. The greatest generation indeed.

She said very little. Spoke French as well as she did English. She loved her Naragansett.

My pop was the toughest man I ever met … mass state police motorcycle cop in WMass when they had 2 cops out per barracks (county) patrolling when most towns didn’t have police depts. years before the Motorola radios … that meant breaking up barroom fights and pulling over suspicious a-holes alone in the middle of no-where … the stories, told to me by others were book-worthy
… but the toughest was my mom. She battled lung cancer from the early 60s and lived until 1980 and died at 51 with my dad dying 2 years later at 54 from a broken heart … too soft inside

but I gotta tell ya, although they were younger members of the “greatest generation” … that generation raised the worst generation, the baby boomers … the anti-establishment ‘heroes’ of the 60s to the mean anti-government f*cks of the new millennium…

I figure the greatest generation were busy partying from WWII (which they deserved) and spoiling their kids (who didn’t deserve it)…

 

[BigKen]

They were also the children of the great depression and never wanted their kids to be as hungry as they were.

Us Baby Boomers are the parents of the Gen Z. They are the parents of the millennials.

Our biggest failing was letting them play the original Nintendo games and giving them cell phones.

They followed our lead.........

 

[Southieinnc]

As a Baby Boomer I raised 3 millenials.
They would be great examples of any generation.
I have often been asked how I raised 3 such great kids.
My answer has always been, "I'm not raising kids, I'm training adults!"

 

[nefansince75]

They were also the children of the great depression and never wanted their kids to be as hungry as they were.

Us Baby Boomers are the parents of the Gen Z. They are the parents of the millennials.

Our biggest failing was letting them play the original Nintendo games and giving them cell phones.

They followed our lead.........

Similar words are spoken by every generation judging those following them. Those born in the late 1860's were probably thinking "I can't believe we're sending THEM to storm the beaches".

 

[nefansince75]

They were also the children of the great depression and never wanted their kids to be as hungry as they were.

Us Baby Boomers are the parents of the Gen Z. They are the parents of the millennials.

Our biggest failing was letting them play the original Nintendo games and giving them cell phones.

They followed our lead.........