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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John6185" data-source="post: 4326441" data-attributes="member: 25679">My generation was patriotic and God-fearing, I could literally go anywhere and be safe riding a bicycle.  I could go in the bacjkyard of the shack where I lived and shoot literally any type of gun from .22 to 12 gauge -if I had  a 30.06 I could have shot it also. My friends and I walked in the street with guns in the crook of our arms and no one took a second look.  Often, I would skip school and go hunting with my dog Duke.  He looked forward to those events and it was seldom we'd come home without a rabbit which we'd cook and eat immediately, my dog and I.  Today, what I did as a kid is impossible at least in the same neighborhood.  Duke foraged for food as did I and I was thinking of him the other night and read where a German Shepherd costs around $100.00 per month for dry dog food and Duke found his food somewhere.We had freedom and what we have today is a poor facsimile of what used to be, the country has changed, politics have changed and children are no longer safe today as I was in my childhood.   Racial unrest wasn't even a societal mention. Politicians today are overtly dishonest and seemingly proud of their anti-America "virtue."  School teachers are not as trustworthy as when I was a child and in those days the male teachers wore suits and female teachers wore dresses as if they were going to church.  And they had respect from the students, never was a hand raised toward any teacher by a student.  And even today, the favorite teachers are spoken about almost reverently.   Many were WWII veterans but never spoke of it but reading their obituaries we know them to be stalwart men of military honor.Those days are now but a dream of what used to be and we can only hope for the best for the present generation and pray for a better future for all.</blockquote>

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