Tomorrow

DU Rocks

I still remember as a kid the celebrations at the end of WW two marching around the neighborhood with the other kids yelling and beating on garbage can lids. Everybody was happy and mostly relieved.

I'm 58. I feel about 35. I remember the moon landings. My earliest memories are of looking from my crib to my twin brother's and seeing him as a baby.

I remember when Pearl Harbor was attacked on a Sunday; my father came home from Mass into the kitchen and said "The Japs have bombed Pearl Harbor. Many memories of WWII - paper drives, scrap metal drives, saving grease in tin cans, stamps for gas, sugar, meat, shoes. Soldiers marching through downtown, my father & I watching, he with tears in his eyes. Also when a friend told me FDR was in a wheel-chair I didn't believe it. Remember FDR's death. -So much more.

PS - Check the math re our friend above. - Perhaps a typo...

Earliest things I can remember:
1. My dad and uncles returning from active duty in WW2.
2. Playing "cowboys and Indians" with my cousins.
3. The family gathering around the radio on Saturday night to listen to Your Hit Parade.
4. Excitement over getting an automatic stoker for our coal furnace.
5. My aunt getting her arm caught in the washing machine wringer.

That was the name of our automatic stoker. Grandpa still had to empty it and sprinkle the clinkers in the alley.
The alley was pretty much 'paved' with clinkers.

03/28/1950, to be exact. Which means I was born just about in the middle of the 20th century. I hope I can manage to stick around till the middle of this one, but we'll have to see what happens.

I can remember growing up that when my mother took me to the shoe store, the salesman would first take an xray of my feet!

We used to play with them and probably got a good dose of radiation. I'll be 80 in March. I remember my Aunt serving in the Navy during the Korean war. I remember Truman being the President and Eisenhower being elected.

Fluoroscope, I think.
It's a wonder we don't all have foot cancer.