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If you will.... think back to when you were just a little Squirt and your Parents worked hard all the time......Laundry in a tub with a scrub board and hitching the team up to do the spring plowing; Milking the cows, cleaning the barn; Watching out for the wee ones and cooking Dad and them something to eat; Doing the dishes and working the garden to keep the weeds down; Shock the hay and haul it into the barn for winter; Cutting Wood for winter, then splitting it and carrying it in for the night, and likely help the neighbor out some also. It seemed like there was a million things to do, and all you were doing was getting in the way, but they loved you anyway and while Mom kept the fires going at home, likely your Dad had a job to go to.

Yet we lived in the best generation of all time. There was not many drugs, and if they did show their head, most of us walked away. We did sneak a cigarette when we thought that we wouldn't get caught. Ha Ha! When we got old enough we had plenty of work to do, so that we didn't join Gangs and plan how to blow up the school and kill the teacher and a lot of your friends. It was just one great time!

Now there is Drugs and Crime all over the Country along with Terrorists that blow up our cities, and then we have to go to war to keep them from doing it again. And we will loose some more young men and women as this goes on until we at least get some of the Crazies killed off and thin them down some. � There is no doubt in my mind that terrorism will be with the world as long as time goes on. We have lived through the good times and I know that a lot of us won't be around to see a lot of it, but at least we didn't have to work for Peanuts and wash with a scrub board and support and raise a Family of Honest people. The Folks done a great job of it. I'll hush now. :o)

~Daddy Bud~