Mr Chuckles: Chuckle 5338

Chuckle 5338

(Today’s Chuckle thanks go to Elva B and Nancy S.

~CHILDREN OF A GENERATION---LIVED IN THE BEST OF TIMES~ (Plus: Today in history, Word for the day, Today’s horoscope, Aunty Acid and Sign )

Some of you may be borderline – but you’ll get it)

Born in the 1930s and 40s, we exist as a very special age cohort. We are the Silent Generation.

We are the smallest number of children born since the early 1900s. We are the "last ones."

We are the last generation, climbing out of the depression, who can remember the winds of war and the impact of a world at war which rattled the structure of our daily lives for years.

We are the generation when men went to war and women for the first time went to work outside the homes to build war fighting equipment and war support items.

We are the last to remember ration books for everything from gas to sugar to shoes to stoves.

We saved tin foil and poured fat into tin cans.

We hand mixed 'white stuff' with 'yellow stuff' to make fake butter.

We saw cars up on blocks because tires weren't available.

We can remember milk being delivered to our house early in the morning and placed in the "milk box" on the porch. [A friend's mother delivered milk in a horse drawn cart.] We sometimes fed the horse, and our dog, Spot, a Fox Terrier, would greet the milkman when he made our delivery, then he would ride in the milk truck till the end of his route, when he would drive by the house and let Spot off the truck.

Many of us are the last to hear Roosevelt’s radio assurances and to see gold stars in the front windows of our grieving neighbors and blue stars to show sons in the military.

Many of us can remember the parades on August 15, 1945 to celebrate victory over Japan--- VJ Day.

We saw the 'boys" home from the war, build their little houses, pouring the cellar, tar papering it over and living there until they could afford the time and money to build homes.

If you would like read the rest of these let me know and I’ll send them to you.

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