Originally Posted by morelcabin
Originally Posted by TanyaL
Families went to church together. Kids were safe 24/7 anywhere in town. You could be a middle income family on one income. Everyone was polite; kids had manners. You knew that when you grew up you could be anything that you wanted to be if you wanted to work hard enough and study hard enough. All our products were made in America and they lasted for years and years and years. There was pride in your family, your town, your state and your country and it was talked about openly. You could brag about them without anyone getting hurt feelings because they bragged about theirs. Americans were proud of being Americans.
Amen!
And yet, black GI's came back from WW2 and still had to sit in the back of the bus and could not vote, in some states. And Japanese-American
citizens came back from internment camps, where they had been sent with no due process, to find their homes, farms, and businesses belonged to someone else now.
I for one am glad those days are in the past.