Reply #25: We need all of you desperately, you know [View All]

[American Tragedy]

We all need you to remind us about preceding elections, about the Great Society initiatives, the Civil rights struggles, Watergate, and the horrifying Vietnam war that senselessly consumed 58,000 young men, a paradigm that seems to have been forgotten by many of your coevals.

Similarly we need your parents to remind us about the Great Depression, how specifically FDR saved our country for years to come with the New Deal, and how those particular initiatives cannot afford be taken for granted as long as the Republicans exist; the failures and victories of WWII, the Red Scare, and the blend of uncertainty and optimism of the post-war world.

I was born in 1983, so I personally remember very little of American history; most of it I only know from thousands of hours of study in books, but it is a poor substitute for experience.