Re: Battleship

I enjoyed caroms, but the boys hogged the board!

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I Know!  We played carroms in Ray and Al's room.  I think the Magdalenos were the only ones that had a carrom board on the block. I had a favorite stick, not curved or warped.  It gave me a little no-how about how you should play pool, which I did later after Berendo.  Not so much a girls thing I think.

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On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 2:42 PM Cathy Fortuna <fortunac@verizon.net> wrote:

Good call.  Other than cards, I don't think Shoots and Ladders or Candyland were played half as much.

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On Aug 30, 2018, at 8:53 PM, Alex Magdaleno <eng42b@gmail.com> wrote:

Monopoly!

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 3:11 PM John Dumas <jdumasfelix@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Gang,

What other indoor games did we play?  I remember playing "Hell" and poker.

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On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 8:05 PM Alex Magdaleno <eng42b@gmail.com> wrote:

I remember sitting in your boys bedroom. We either had a book or a board to write on and hold the paper up. At the fire station we would play with clipboards.

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 5:16 PM Cathy Fortuna <fortunac@verizon.net> wrote:

I saw players on the floor.  The board had a backboard that blocked others from seeing your board.

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Al,

How did we keep the other players from seeing our ship layout?  Did we play on a table or on the floor?

Johnny

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:32 AM Alex Magdaleno <eng42b@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, diagonally and also a combination of all directions as long as each square touched another.

I made a YouTube video about 7 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6U7XKG1Dps&t=4s

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 10:38 AM John Dumas <jdumasfelix@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Al,

Like Cathy, I remember about 4 players.  The wikipedia entry shows the ships placed vertically or horizontally.   I seem to remember that we also could place them diagonally.  Do you remember that?

Johnny

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 7:33 PM Alex Magdaleno <eng42b@gmail.com> wrote:

Wikipedia doesn't know that more than 2 can play the game. What would you say was the largest number  we played with back in the day? I remember about 5.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(game)

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Re: Battleship

I remember Chutes and Ladders a lot when we were younger. Don't remember Candyland at all. Marla loved playing cards. One time she took her deck over to the Rudd's house next to the church. They sent her packing.

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 7:22 PM John Dumas <jdumasfelix@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Gang,

I Know!  We played carroms in Ray and Al's room.  I think the Magdalenos were the only ones that had a carrom board on the block. I had a favorite stick, not curved or warped.  It gave me a little no-how about how you should play pool, which I did later after Berendo.  Not so much a girls thing I think.

Johnny

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 2:42 PM Cathy Fortuna <fortunac@verizon.net> wrote:

Good call.  Other than cards, I don't think Shoots and Ladders or Candyland were played half as much.

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On Aug 30, 2018, at 8:53 PM, Alex Magdaleno <eng42b@gmail.com> wrote:

Monopoly!

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 3:11 PM John Dumas <jdumasfelix@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Gang,

What other indoor games did we play?  I remember playing "Hell" and poker.

Johnny

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 8:05 PM Alex Magdaleno <eng42b@gmail.com> wrote:

I remember sitting in your boys bedroom. We either had a book or a board to write on and hold the paper up. At the fire station we would play with clipboards.

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 5:16 PM Cathy Fortuna <fortunac@verizon.net> wrote:

I saw players on the floor.  The board had a backboard that blocked others from seeing your board.

Sent from my iPad

On Aug 28, 2018, at 2:52 PM, John Dumas <jdumasfelix@gmail.com> wrote:

Al,

How did we keep the other players from seeing our ship layout?  Did we play on a table or on the floor?

Johnny

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:32 AM Alex Magdaleno <eng42b@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, diagonally and also a combination of all directions as long as each square touched another.

I made a YouTube video about 7 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6U7XKG1Dps&t=4s

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 10:38 AM John Dumas <jdumasfelix@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Al,

Like Cathy, I remember about 4 players.  The wikipedia entry shows the ships placed vertically or horizontally.   I seem to remember that we also could place them diagonally.  Do you remember that?

Johnny

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 7:33 PM Alex Magdaleno <eng42b@gmail.com> wrote:

Wikipedia doesn't know that more than 2 can play the game. What would you say was the largest number  we played with back in the day? I remember about 5.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(game)

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Re: Battleship

Hi Gang,

I Know!  We played carroms in Ray and Al's room.  I think the Magdalenos were the only ones that had a carrom board on the block. I had a favorite stick, not curved or warped.  It gave me a little no-how about how you should play pool, which I did later after Berendo.  Not so much a girls thing I think.

Johnny

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 2:42 PM Cathy Fortuna <fortunac@verizon.net> wrote:

Good call.  Other than cards, I don't think Shoots and Ladders or Candyland were played half as much.

Sent from my iPad

On Aug 30, 2018, at 8:53 PM, Alex Magdaleno <eng42b@gmail.com> wrote:

Monopoly!

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 3:11 PM John Dumas <jdumasfelix@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Gang,

What other indoor games did we play?  I remember playing "Hell" and poker.

Johnny

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 8:05 PM Alex Magdaleno <eng42b@gmail.com> wrote:

I remember sitting in your boys bedroom. We either had a book or a board to write on and hold the paper up. At the fire station we would play with clipboards.

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 5:16 PM Cathy Fortuna <fortunac@verizon.net> wrote:

I saw players on the floor.  The board had a backboard that blocked others from seeing your board.

Sent from my iPad

On Aug 28, 2018, at 2:52 PM, John Dumas <jdumasfelix@gmail.com> wrote:

Al,

How did we keep the other players from seeing our ship layout?  Did we play on a table or on the floor?

Johnny

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:32 AM Alex Magdaleno <eng42b@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, diagonally and also a combination of all directions as long as each square touched another.

I made a YouTube video about 7 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6U7XKG1Dps&t=4s

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 10:38 AM John Dumas <jdumasfelix@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Al,

Like Cathy, I remember about 4 players.  The wikipedia entry shows the ships placed vertically or horizontally.   I seem to remember that we also could place them diagonally.  Do you remember that?

Johnny

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 7:33 PM Alex Magdaleno <eng42b@gmail.com> wrote:

Wikipedia doesn't know that more than 2 can play the game. What would you say was the largest number  we played with back in the day? I remember about 5.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(game)

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Re: Battleship

Good call.  Other than cards, I don't think Shoots and Ladders or Candyland were played half as much.

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On Aug 30, 2018, at 8:53 PM, Alex Magdaleno <eng42b@gmail.com> wrote:

Monopoly!

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 3:11 PM John Dumas <jdumasfelix@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Gang,

What other indoor games did we play?  I remember playing "Hell" and poker.

Johnny

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 8:05 PM Alex Magdaleno <eng42b@gmail.com> wrote:

I remember sitting in your boys bedroom. We either had a book or a board to write on and hold the paper up. At the fire station we would play with clipboards.

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 5:16 PM Cathy Fortuna <fortunac@verizon.net> wrote:

I saw players on the floor.  The board had a backboard that blocked others from seeing your board.

Sent from my iPad

On Aug 28, 2018, at 2:52 PM, John Dumas <jdumasfelix@gmail.com> wrote:

Al,

How did we keep the other players from seeing our ship layout?  Did we play on a table or on the floor?

Johnny

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:32 AM Alex Magdaleno <eng42b@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, diagonally and also a combination of all directions as long as each square touched another.

I made a YouTube video about 7 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6U7XKG1Dps&t=4s

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 10:38 AM John Dumas <jdumasfelix@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Al,

Like Cathy, I remember about 4 players.  The wikipedia entry shows the ships placed vertically or horizontally.   I seem to remember that we also could place them diagonally.  Do you remember that?

Johnny

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 7:33 PM Alex Magdaleno <eng42b@gmail.com> wrote:

Wikipedia doesn't know that more than 2 can play the game. What would you say was the largest number  we played with back in the day? I remember about 5.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(game)

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Monopoly!

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 3:11 PM John Dumas <jdumasfelix@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Gang,

What other indoor games did we play?  I remember playing "Hell" and poker.

Johnny

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 8:05 PM Alex Magdaleno <eng42b@gmail.com> wrote:

I remember sitting in your boys bedroom. We either had a book or a board to write on and hold the paper up. At the fire station we would play with clipboards.

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 5:16 PM Cathy Fortuna <fortunac@verizon.net> wrote:

I saw players on the floor.  The board had a backboard that blocked others from seeing your board.

Sent from my iPad

On Aug 28, 2018, at 2:52 PM, John Dumas <jdumasfelix@gmail.com> wrote:

Al,

How did we keep the other players from seeing our ship layout?  Did we play on a table or on the floor?

Johnny

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:32 AM Alex Magdaleno <eng42b@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, diagonally and also a combination of all directions as long as each square touched another.

I made a YouTube video about 7 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6U7XKG1Dps&t=4s

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 10:38 AM John Dumas <jdumasfelix@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Al,

Like Cathy, I remember about 4 players.  The wikipedia entry shows the ships placed vertically or horizontally.   I seem to remember that we also could place them diagonally.  Do you remember that?

Johnny

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 7:33 PM Alex Magdaleno <eng42b@gmail.com> wrote:

Wikipedia doesn't know that more than 2 can play the game. What would you say was the largest number  we played with back in the day? I remember about 5.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(game)

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Re: Battleship

Hi Gang,

What other indoor games did we play?  I remember playing "Hell" and poker.

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I remember sitting in your boys bedroom. We either had a book or a board to write on and hold the paper up. At the fire station we would play with clipboards.

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 5:16 PM Cathy Fortuna <fortunac@verizon.net> wrote:

I saw players on the floor.  The board had a backboard that blocked others from seeing your board.

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Al,

How did we keep the other players from seeing our ship layout?  Did we play on a table or on the floor?

Johnny

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Yes, diagonally and also a combination of all directions as long as each square touched another.

I made a YouTube video about 7 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6U7XKG1Dps&t=4s

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Like Cathy, I remember about 4 players.  The wikipedia entry shows the ships placed vertically or horizontally.   I seem to remember that we also could place them diagonally.  Do you remember that?

Johnny

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I remember sitting in your boys bedroom. We either had a book or a board to write on and hold the paper up. At the fire station we would play with clipboards.

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 5:16 PM Cathy Fortuna <fortunac@verizon.net> wrote:

I saw players on the floor.  The board had a backboard that blocked others from seeing your board.

Sent from my iPad

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Al,

How did we keep the other players from seeing our ship layout?  Did we play on a table or on the floor?

Johnny

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:32 AM Alex Magdaleno <eng42b@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, diagonally and also a combination of all directions as long as each square touched another.

I made a YouTube video about 7 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6U7XKG1Dps&t=4s

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 10:38 AM John Dumas <jdumasfelix@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Al,

Like Cathy, I remember about 4 players.  The wikipedia entry shows the ships placed vertically or horizontally.   I seem to remember that we also could place them diagonally.  Do you remember that?

Johnny

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 7:33 PM Alex Magdaleno <eng42b@gmail.com> wrote:

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Re: Battleship

I saw players on the floor.  The board had a backboard that blocked others from seeing your board.

Sent from my iPad

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Al,

How did we keep the other players from seeing our ship layout?  Did we play on a table or on the floor?

Johnny

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:32 AM Alex Magdaleno <eng42b@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, diagonally and also a combination of all directions as long as each square touched another.

I made a YouTube video about 7 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6U7XKG1Dps&t=4s

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 10:38 AM John Dumas <jdumasfelix@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Al,

Like Cathy, I remember about 4 players.  The wikipedia entry shows the ships placed vertically or horizontally.   I seem to remember that we also could place them diagonally.  Do you remember that?

Johnny

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 7:33 PM Alex Magdaleno <eng42b@gmail.com> wrote:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(game)

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Re: Battleship

Al,

How did we keep the other players from seeing our ship layout?  Did we play on a table or on the floor?

Johnny

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Yes, diagonally and also a combination of all directions as long as each square touched another.

I made a YouTube video about 7 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6U7XKG1Dps&t=4s

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Hi Al,

Like Cathy, I remember about 4 players.  The wikipedia entry shows the ships placed vertically or horizontally.   I seem to remember that we also could place them diagonally.  Do you remember that?

Johnny

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 7:33 PM Alex Magdaleno <eng42b@gmail.com> wrote:

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Re: Battleship

Yes, diagonally and also a combination of all directions as long as each square touched another.

I made a YouTube video about 7 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6U7XKG1Dps&t=4s

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Hi Al,

Like Cathy, I remember about 4 players.  The wikipedia entry shows the ships placed vertically or horizontally.   I seem to remember that we also could place them diagonally.  Do you remember that?

Johnny

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 7:33 PM Alex Magdaleno <eng42b@gmail.com> wrote:

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Re: Battleship

Hi Al,

Like Cathy, I remember about 4 players.  The wikipedia entry shows the ships placed vertically or horizontally.   I seem to remember that we also could place them diagonally.  Do you remember that?

Johnny

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Re: Battleship

I didn't play but do remember often seeing you play and one time four guys playing.

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Re: The Newsome Store

Thanks Al for all the good info.  We're putting together kind of a family history timeline and want to include significant changes or happenings to the old neighborhood.  These little details are just fun and a challenge to discuss when we get together.  

I remember about 3 accidents on the corner of Berendo & 112th street.  The first one occurred when I was in the first or second grade.  That one involved us.  My mother was driving us to Woodcrest and got hit by a fast driving kid as she crossed 112th going north on Berendo.  The other two you have pictures of and we can probably nail down the dates on those by guessing how old the kids in the pictures are.

Hope all is well with you and Elma and your boys families.

Johnny

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I found more pictures of the work on the property. It was 1945.

Alex

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Thanks again Al,

One more for you:   When did your Garner grandparents build their house on 112th and Budlong?  In your picture of Russell and your grandfather in front of the newly broken retaining wall where the garage would be built has Russell looking about 17 or 18.  That would put the time at about 1948 if Russell was born in 1930.  What do you think?

Johnny

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I can't remember for sure what she said. I think it was late 30's but not sure. Cathy say the Baxters were running the store about 1950 when she first was allowed to go there by herself. She thinks the Pearsons were running it at the time Russel and his wife were living in the little house on the other side of the store. That was about 1952. Some time after that my cousin Douglas and his wife rented that house.

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Thanks Al,

Do you recall hearing from your folks or others when the Newsoms opened the store.  In the 30's?

Johnny

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Hi Johnny, I will forward this to Cathy and see if she knows any more than I do. The Pearsons were running it when David worked there so  he can give you an approximate date. Russel Garner ran into the Baxters when he moved to Sunnymead in 56 so they were out of there by then at the latest.

Elma and I moved out of the neighborhood in 68 and the store was still there but I don't remember for sure who ran it. I seem to remember that someone else ran it after the Pearsons and they had to close it because the kids who moved into the area were always stealing from them.

The Baxters probably took over after Mr. Newsom died. I could find no record of his death. I did find him on the 1930 and 1940 census.

Alex

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Hi Al,

Mike and I were talking about the old Newsome store yesterday and we got to wondering what the timing of the various owners was.

Can you recall.  When we moved to Berendo in 1941, Newsome was running the store.  Later in the 40s I think, the Baxters took over.  Then later Pearson ran the business.   Can you come up pretty close to the exact years?

Also, were there other owners after Pearson and when did the store close for good?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Johnny

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Hi Al,

Mike and I were talking about the old Newsome store yesterday and we got to wondering what the timing of the various owners was.

Can you recall.  When we moved to Berendo in 1941, Newsome was running the store.  Later in the 40s I think, the Baxters took over.  Then later Pearson ran the business.   Can you come up pretty close to the exact years?

Also, were there other owners after Pearson and when did the store close for good?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

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Just wanted to share these photos of Pop at the Prom!  They take such good care of him.  Hospice checks Pop weekly and so far no changes so this is good. Every time we see him he recognizes us and is happy.  Some things he still forgets, but that is the nature of what he deals with.  Hope everyone is well.

Mike & Christine

It's the last two pictures on this page.

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Children of the greatest generation.

 

CHILDREN OF THE GREATEST GENERATION

 Born in the 1930s and early 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 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 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.

We are the last to see the gold stars in the front windows of our grieving neighbors whose sons died in the War.

We saw the 'boys' home from the war, build their little houses.

We are the last generation who spent childhood without television; instead, we imagined what we heard on the radio.

As we all like to brag, with no TV, we spent our childhood "playing outside".

We did play outside, and we did play on our own.

There was no little league.

There was no city playground for kids.

The lack of television in our early years meant, for most of us, that we had little real understanding of what the world was like.

On Saturday afternoons, the movies, gave us newsreels of the war sandwiched in between westerns and cartoons.

Telephones were one to a house, often shared (party Lines)and hung on the wall.

Computers were called calculators, they only added and were hand cranked; typewriters were driven by pounding fingers, throwing the carriage, and changing the ribbon.

The 'internet' and 'GOOGLE' were words that did not exist.

Newspapers and magazines were written for adults and the news was broadcast on our table radio in the evening by Gabriel Heatter.

We are the last group who had to find out for ourselves.

As we grew up, the country was exploding with growth.

The G.I. Bill gave returning veterans the means to get an education and spurred colleges to grow.

VA loans fanned a housing boom.

Pent up demand coupled with new installment payment plans put factories to work.

New highways would bring jobs and mobility.

The veterans joined civic clubs and became active in politics.

The radio network expanded from 3 stations to thousands of stations.

Our parents were suddenly free from the confines of the depression and the war, and they threw themselves into exploring opportunities they had never imagined.

We weren't neglected, but we weren't today's all-consuming family focus.

They were glad we played by ourselves until the street lights came on.

They were busy discovering the post war world.

We entered a world of overflowing plenty and opportunity; a world where we were welcomed.

We enjoyed a luxury; we felt secure in our future.

Depression poverty was deep rooted.

Polio was still a crippler.

The Korean War was a dark presage in the early 50s and by mid-decade school children were ducking under desks for Air-Raid training.

Russia built the "Iron Curtain" and China became Red China .

Eisenhower sent the first 'advisers' to Vietnam.

Castro set up camp in Cuba and Khrushchev came to power.

We are the last generation to experience an interlude when there were no threats to our homeland.

We came of age in the 40s and 50s. The war was over and the cold war, terrorism, "global warming", and perpetual economic insecurity had yet to haunt life with unease.

Only our generation can remember both a time of great war, and a time when our world was secure and full of bright promise and plenty. We have lived through both.

We grew up at the best possible time, a time when the world was getting better. not worse.

We are the Silent Generation - "The Last Ones"

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