Trying to survive anywhere now on earth is getting tougher and tougher for everyone. Of course even when the dollar went much further than now in the 1950s through 1973 when the Arab Oil Embargo ended the Good life for the average person in the U.S. things were not perfect (just much better than now economically).
People had all sorts of other problems caused by the Great Depression and World War II.
My parents and grandparents who suffered through the Great Depression and world war II had all sorts of psychological problems from experiencing that. in a way "No one got out of there alive" in some ways.
The Great Depression and World war II "Took no prisoners" and killed everyone psychologically it seems.
So, I feel very forgiving of people like my parents who actually survived all that and still were good parents to me (as good as they could be after what they all had been through from 1930 until 1950 or so.
So then, they tell me as a child "You are going to die in a nuclear war as a soldier".
That's not what any child wants to hear by the way.
And luckily that didn't happen and turned out to be paranoia of the Great Depression and World War II egged on by Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the point of hysteria and paranoia shared by the whole world (at least during the 1950s) and the PTSD from the Great Depression and World war II that harmed everyone who survived it and killed 100 million other people directly and indirectly.
So, just surviving at all anywhere on earth from 1930 to 1950 was a really big deal and so as a child I saw the aftermath of all this and what it did to everyone that made everyone a little crazy trying to create their lives forward after all that.
So, in some ways, it's a miracle we all are as sane as we are after our forebears lived through all that.
Then us Baby Boomers had to deal with The Cuban Missile Crisis (worrying about the nuking end of the world) then the Kennedy Assassination (likely done by Russia and Castro and the Mafia of the world) and then the Viet Nam WAr which killed more people my age (born 1948) than any other there.
So, somehow some of us survived all that and our parents survived that (those who did) and here we are today trying to survive something new entirely.
If I look back to the 1950s there is really no way at all to make sense of what they world is right now unless one has lived since the 1950s like me. And even then I have to adapt to something new each and every day to keep anything in my life continue to make any sense at all.
But, you and I at least are still all alive:
By God's Grace Alone
Thank you God for Blessing us with Life!
