Looking back

I wondered why people were so crazy in the 1950s when I was a child. I wondered why people were mostly really depressing in their lives. I was born in Seattle but I didn't see World war II only the aftermath of what it did to the survivors. 

IN 1999 I took my mother to Scotland where her parents grew up and then met and married there and then came to the U.S. where both were born. But, when I took her to Germany she couldn't deal with it at all and wouldn't get out of the 6 passenger motor home from Germany through Austria and Switzerland and wouldn't even get out in Italy. 

She couldn't deal with being in mainland Europe because her friend Bruce was about 18 or 19 from Church and he was machined gunned in half at the Battle of the Bulge. World war II made it impossible for her to be in any of these countries and as a direct result of my taking her there she dropped into senile dementia within a year of this trip. She never recovered from going to Europe before she died.

Most people were completely messed up by World War II and the Great Depression. I didn't understand it then but I do now. Coronavirus is messing people up worldwide (all the walking wounded now) and many will never be okay ever again in their lives from their ongoing PTSD of the whole thing.

This is likely what we have to look forward to the next 20 to 50 years here on earth so maybe we should be preparing for this. It's true my mother was 82 when I took her to Scotland and mainland Europe but she never recovered from going to mainland Europe even though she was okay in Scotland and England.

What I'm saying here is World War II and the coronavirus did and are messing people up in a really profound way that won't heal ever for many people and we need to start preparing for all this because all we survivors will have to deal with it.