What major historical events do you remember?
I’m not ancient, but I was born in scary times. I remember the nightmares I had after the “duck and cover” drills that would not have saved my elementary school friends from an atomic bomb.
I remember the President getting assassinated and watching his funeral on black-and-white television. I liked the white horses.
I remember Walter Cronkite solemnly reciting war casualties and my parents’ friends crying over their young sons forced to be in that war.
I remember some years of hope, when I thought people were getting less racist, women were getting the same rights as men, and my gay friends were able to come out of the closet.
I was on a plane when the 9/11 horrors happened.
I noticed when Vladimir Putin was elected and quickly became dictator. It reminded of a time before my birth when a candidate in Germany stirred up the disaffected and angry populace to win his race, then immediately put his opponents in concentration camps. Then came the immigrants, the gays, the non-Christians.
I hope I won’t remember a time when history repeats itself. Again. More scary times.
We’ll see. Two weeks from now a choice will be made. Pray for peace and that cool heads prevail.
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