Anonymous wrote:Only 2 kids? Damn, your mom was a slacker.

Anonymous wrote:Oh, my father had his faults - as did my mother. I just don't remember my mother ever blaming my father for whatever misfortune - if any - she suffered in life. They were a team -both economically and as parents. My father coached the Little League Teams - even had his law firm sponsor them - my mother was the Girl Scout/Cub Scout leader. Mom took us to art museums, exhibtions and concerts (although I once went with her - just me, not my brother or sister - to the Orange Bowl for a Dolphins game). We went to baseball games with Dad. We spent summers on Cape Cod with Mom and on the Jersey Shore with Dad. And it was always a thrill when Dad's AF Reserve Squadron buzzed the house! I could see how the power in the engines of those aircraft woould strike fear into the enemies of America. It was just awesome.

As for the AF Reserve helping to pay for college, at a minimum of 40 hours flight time for month Dad brought in an additional $2000 per month (more if there were more flight hours) in today's dollars. That would pay the tuition for one kid at school, and he got to do it while doing something he loved and that provided a valuable service to the nation. There was once an ABA Journal article he had that profiled lawyers in the military reserves. Most of those profiled were doing JAG work - extensions of their civilian lives. My father flew plans - every weekend if he could. In the end, I think this is what gave his life meaning. He loved it so much.

Somehow, the men and women who raised understood their duty to themselve, their children and their nation. I am not so sure my or the upcoming generation understands anything beyond their own selfish wishes.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh, my father had his faults - as did my mother. I just don't remember my mother ever blaming my father for whatever misfortune - if any - she suffered in life. They were a team -both economically and as parents. My father coached the Little League Teams - even had his law firm sponsor them - my mother was the Girl Scout/Cub Scout leader. Mom took us to art museums, exhibtions and concerts (although I once went with her - just me, not my brother or sister - to the Orange Bowl for a Dolphins game). We went to baseball games with Dad. We spent summers on Cape Cod with Mom and on the Jersey Shore with Dad. And it was always a thrill when Dad's AF Reserve Squadron buzzed the house! I could see how the power in the engines of those aircraft woould strike fear into the enemies of America. It was just awesome.

As for the AF Reserve helping to pay for college, at a minimum of 40 hours flight time for month Dad brought in an additional $2000 per month (more if there were more flight hours) in today's dollars. That would pay the tuition for one kid at school, and he got to do it while doing something he loved and that provided a valuable service to the nation. There was once an ABA Journal article he had that profiled lawyers in the military reserves. Most of those profiled were doing JAG work - extensions of their civilian lives. My father flew plans - every weekend if he could. In the end, I think this is what gave his life meaning. He loved it so much.

Somehow, the men and women who raised understood their duty to themselve, their children and their nation. I am not so sure my or the upcoming generation understands anything beyond their own selfish wishes.

Your mom and dad took separate vacations in the summer?

Anonymous wrote:This is why marijuana needs to be legalized...so stressed husbands in the 2K can deal with these whining complaining women and sustain some semblance of a stress-free existence.

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Anonymous wrote:
Somehow, the men and women who raised understood their duty to themselve, their children and their nation. I am not so sure my or the upcoming generation understands anything beyond their own selfish wishes.

Whither are the manly vigor and athletic appearance of our forefathers flown? Can these be their legitimate heirs? Surely, no; a race of effeminate, self-admiring, emaciated fribbles can never have descended in a direct line from the heroes of Potiers and Agincourt...
Town and Country Magazine, November 1771

Never has youth been exposed to such dangers of both perversion and arrest as in our own land and day. Increasing urban life with its temptations, prematurities, sedentary occupations, and passive stimuli just when an active life is most needed, early emancipation and a lessening sense for both duty and discipline, the haste to know and do all befitting man's estate before its time, the mad rush for sudden wealth and the reckless fashions set by its gilded youth--all these lack some of the regulatives they still have in older lands with more conservative conditions.
The Psychology of Adolescence, 1904

...a fearful multitude of untutored savages... [boys] with dogs at their heels and other evidence of dissolute habits...[girls who] drive coal-carts, ride astride upon horses, drink, swear, fight, smoke, whistle, and care for nobody...the morals of children are tenfold worse than formerly.
Speech to the House of Commons, 1843

Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.
Horace, 20 BC

Youth were never more sawcie, yea never more savagely saucie . . . the ancient are scorned, the honourable are contemned, the magistrate is not dreaded.
The Wise Man's Forecast Against the Evill Time, 1624

Household luxuries, school-room steam-press systems, and, above all, the mad spirit of the times, have not come to us without a loss more than proportionate...[a young man] rushes headlong, with an impetuosity which strikes fire from the sharp flints under his tread...Occasionally, one of this class...amasses an estate, but at the expense of his peace, and often of his health. The lunatic asylum or the premature grave too frequently winds up his career...We expect each succeeding generation will grow "beautifully less."
Degeneracy of Stature, 1856


http://mentalfloss.com/article/52209/15-historical-complaints-about-young-people-ruining-everything#ixzz2oze0Vv7E

Anonymous wrote:
Somehow, the men and women who raised understood their duty to themselve, their children and their nation. I am not so sure my or the upcoming generation understands anything beyond their own selfish wishes.

Anonymous wrote:Oh, my father had his faults - as did my mother. I just don't remember my mother ever blaming my father for whatever misfortune - if any - she suffered in life. They were a team -both economically and as parents. My father coached the Little League Teams - even had his law firm sponsor them - my mother was the Girl Scout/Cub Scout leader. Mom took us to art museums, exhibtions and concerts (although I once went with her - just me, not my brother or sister - to the Orange Bowl for a Dolphins game). We went to baseball games with Dad. We spent summers on Cape Cod with Mom and on the Jersey Shore with Dad. And it was always a thrill when Dad's AF Reserve Squadron buzzed the house! I could see how the power in the engines of those aircraft woould strike fear into the enemies of America. It was just awesome.

As for the AF Reserve helping to pay for college, at a minimum of 40 hours flight time for month Dad brought in an additional $2000 per month (more if there were more flight hours) in today's dollars. That would pay the tuition for one kid at school, and he got to do it while doing something he loved and that provided a valuable service to the nation. There was once an ABA Journal article he had that profiled lawyers in the military reserves. Most of those profiled were doing JAG work - extensions of their civilian lives. My father flew plans - every weekend if he could. In the end, I think this is what gave his life meaning. He loved it so much.

Somehow, the men and women who raised understood their duty to themselve, their children and their nation. I am not so sure my or the upcoming generation understands anything beyond their own selfish wishes.