Hey, Tom, Reba's damn good

Geezer though I am, Arch, quite a few memories of my youth ring similarly true with yours. But then, I was about a generation ahead of you. Like you, my childhood was a difficult one. So, I bailed at 18, joined the Marines and went to Viet Nam. Came back at 20 (felt more like 40), but made my way successfully in life ever since.

BTW, Arch, the point of the OP is summed up with the opening quote by Will Rogers...kind'a like looking at the past through rose-colored glasses.

Close to sixty of my seventy-five years of life, I lived in Houston or Austin. So, you can dismiss my not having ever lived with everyday issues that came with raising three kids as a single parent in a big city.

"Things ain't what they used to be and never were." - Will Rogers

The long-ago days many Americans wish for never truly existed. They see the 1950s through nostalgic lenses and since most of them aren't old enough to really know what they were like, it's not even legitimate nostalgia.

Case in point, the traditional wives. This is a social media thing where mostly men post about how they would love living the idyllic life with or as a 1950s house wife. She has the perfect hair, bakes all the meals and has a martini for her man when he comes home. It's also almost all BS. That wasn't what it was like for the vast majority of women back in the 50s. It's what it was like on the 50's wholesome TV sitcoms and popular advertisements. So they get all the luxuries of a modern woman to play act as women who didn't really exist.

It goes on as they imagine a world that was too good to be true, Like the days you didn't have to lock your doors at night. If we didn't need to lock doors why did they install them in the first place?.

They continue with the fantasy: Only attractive women allowed to fill those positions? There weren't enough women to fit that description at the time to do that. How could they do all those jobs when they were at home all day being young housewives, cooking and taking care of the kids?

However, I think the most important part of the fantasy is not what is in it, but what isn't. There are no race issues in their 1950s, even though that was a huge thing. There are no problems with immigrants, they just magically don't exist (also not true) and women knew their place (women were fighting tooth and nail for their rights at the time). No gay people, no foreign powers trying to interfere with their way of life (The Cold War?) and no non-Christians spreading their Faiths.

So really, no, they don't want to go back to 'the good 'ol days'. They just prefer to live with a fantasy.

Thank you for posting this, AuntiE.

Oh, great. A few clowns of OPP accuse another being a clown.

Thank you, Rose.

Bless you and your husband, Radiance. May he continue to R.I.P., awaiting your arrival to join him.

I agree: Let us all bond together, Republicans and Democrats as Americans...one and all

44th U.S. President Barack Obama officially inaugurated this Commemoration at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. on Memorial Day, May 28, 2012. Yet, Mitch McConnell and the GOP refused to push it through Congress with Obama's administration getting credit for it. With the hope of Trump winning in 2016, it was held up 'til after the 2016 e******n. It was then quickly pushed through and Trump signed the proclamation early in 2017.

USMC - Viet Nam, 1968-69

Well, if you meant 'take' rather than 'rake', I'm quite certain I don't have that long left.

Morning, L-T. I had been expecting you. The following are from a listing of Spiro Agnew's most famous quotes: The first speaks to you, the second includes you right in the middle.

"In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history."

"Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer."

Have a good day, L-T.

National Vietnam War Veterans Day is a US holiday observed annually on March 29th. It recognizes Veterans who served in the US military during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act includes March 29th as a day on which the US f**g should especially be displayed.

The original P**********l Proclamation...

The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
March 29, 2012

P**********l Proclamation -- Vietnam Veterans Day

VIETNAM VETERANS DAY

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

On January 12, 1962, United States Army pilots lifted more than 1,000 South Vietnamese service members over jungle and underbrush to capture a National Liberation Front stronghold near Saigon. Operation Chopper marked America's first combat mission against the Viet Cong, and the beginning of one of our longest and most challenging wars. Through more than a decade of conflict that tested the fabric of our Nation, the service of our men and women in uniform stood true. Fifty years after that fateful mission, we honor the more than 3 million Americans who served, we pay tribute to those we have laid to rest, and we reaffirm our dedication to showing a generation of Veterans the respect and support of a grateful Nation.

The Vietnam War is a story of service members of different backgrounds, colors, and creeds who came together to complete a daunting mission. It is a story of Americans from every corner of our Nation who left the warmth of family to serve the country they loved. It is a story of patriots who braved the line of fire, who cast themselves into harm's way to save a friend, who fought hour after hour, day after day to preserve the liberties we hold dear. From La Drang to Hue, they won every major battle of the war and upheld the highest traditions of our Armed Forces.

Eleven years of combat left their imprint on a generation. Thousands returned home bearing shrapnel and scars; still more were burdened by the invisible wounds of post-traumatic stress, of Agent Orange, of memories that would never fade. More than 58,000 laid down their lives in service to our Nation. Now and forever, their names are etched into two faces of black granite, a lasting memorial to those who bore conflict's greatest cost.

Our Veterans answered our country's call and served with honor, and on March 29, 1973, the last of our troops left Vietnam. Yet, in one of the war's most profound tragedies, many of these men and women came home to be shunned or neglected -- to face treatment unbefitting their courage and a welcome unworthy of their example. We must never let this happen again. Today, we reaffirm one of our most fundamental obligations: to show all who have worn the uniform of the United States the respect and dignity they deserve, and to honor their sacrifice by serving them as well as they served us. Half a century after those helicopters swept off the ground and into the annals of history, we pay tribute to the fallen, the missing, the wounded, the millions who served, and the millions more who awaited their return. Our Nation stands stronger for their service, and on Vietnam Veterans Day, we honor their proud legacy with our deepest gratitude.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 29, 2012, as Vietnam Veterans Day. I call upon all Americans to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities that commemorate the 50-year anniversary of the Vietnam War.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord two thousand twelve, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-sixth.

BARACK OBAMA

Welcome home, Brothers

https://theconversation.com/trump-is-no-navalny-and-prosecution-in-a-democracy-is-a-lot-different-than-persecution-in-putins-russia-223840

Excerpt:

"Often, distinguishing good faith proceedings from bad faith “witch hunts” is not a fact-based exercise, especially for the targets of investigations and among their supporters.

But the law and evidence help to elucidate some themes that lead any reasonable observer to categorically differentiate Navalny – and other victims of bona fide maltreatment – from Trump."

https://theconversation.com/trump-is-no-navalny-and-prosecution-in-a-democracy-is-a-lot-different-than-persecution-in-putins-russia-223840

Excerpt:

"Often, distinguishing good faith proceedings from bad faith “witch hunts” is not a fact-based exercise, especially for the targets of investigations and among their supporters.

But the law and evidence help to elucidate some themes that lead any reasonable observer to categorically differentiate Navalny – and other victims of bona fide maltreatment – from Trump."

IMO, Ms. Clark may well be the greatest pure shooter in women's basketball history, and one of the greatest shooters in men's or women's collegiate history. She is fun to watch