Lest we forget:

Bu2

I remember being a child in the 60’s and 70’s.

I remember my mom driving me around in the car with the Beatles’ “Penny Lane” and Jefferson Airplane’s “Somebody to Love” playing on the AM radio.

I remember being in the back seat but I wasn’t in a child’s seat. We didn’t have child safety seats back then. She was probably smoking a cigarette, too, while she drove me around.

I remember buying penny candy (Bazooka Joe bubble gum, with a comic strip and fortune inside, candy necklaces, Necko wafers, Pixie Stix, wax lips, harmonicas, etc.).

I remember learning about Martin Luther King in 3rd grade of elementary school, in black and white films where the projector had to be wheeled in to the classroom.

I remember watching us land on the moon in my 3rd grade library too.

I remember my mother’s shock (and my grandparents’, and my dad’s) over Nixon and Watergate.

I remember Kent State and Neil Young singing “Four dead in Ohio….”

I remember Jimmy Carter and gas lines (even and odd license plate numbers) and I remember Billy Beer and Jimmy’s mama on TV.

I remember Dick Cavett, Rhoda, Maude, Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, and Soap.

I remember John Lennon and Yoko being ridiculed.

I remember the Jackson 5 versus the Osmonds.

I remember Billy Preston and George Harrison singing for Bangladesh.

I remember hostage crises, Olympics, marches, inflation, I remember it all.

I remember Reagan, I remember surpluses, I remember Iran-Contra deals, and Ollie North.

I remember Clinton, and Gennifer Flowers, and Hillary’s trading on cattle futures, and the Rose Law Firm billings.

I remember Whitewater Gate, Travel Gate, and Monica Lewinsky too.

I remember McCain trying to beat that Bush boy, back in 2000 too.

I survived it all, to live thus far.

And I can honestly say, today is the coolest time for us all, by far. Because we have a chance to either adopt major change, or blow it all away by staying where we were.

I prefer change…don’t you?

prism

just think, we could all still be eating those candy cigarettes too




yep, I certainly want change for the better.

Bu2

prism wrote:

just think, we could all still be eating those candy cigarettes too




yep, I certainly want change for the better.

I forgot about those candy cigarettes! In pink and light green and purple, LOL!! They came in a real-looking ciggie pack, too!!

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who wants change for the better.

Peace,
Bu

sweetpotato

hell, i'm just glad there are other old farts here besides me.

i remember pretending to play the keyboard along with lori during the partridge family episodes.

i remember thinking, even then, that the brady bunch was lame.

i remember my dad's shiny new 1970 maroon camaro.

i remember seeing peter frampton in concert, sixth row center orchestra @ msg.

i remember waking up to "bruce juice" on WNEW-NY.

i remember seeing bruce during the river tour.

i remember when WPLJ played ROCK music.

i remember seeing kiss back when they didn't need to be wheeled out onto stage.

MasterFramer

I remember not giving shit. This country needs Obama, S. C. Is his!