Posts Tagged ‘Greatest Generation’
9/11 plus 25
11Sep26
Every generation has one of those “always remember where you were” events. For the Greatest Generation, it was Pearl Harbor. For the Baby Boomers, it was the JFK Assassination. September 11, 2001 is one of those dates.
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Fine print
05Aug16
Lately, I don’t feel like my week is complete until I’ve been lectured by a millennial about one thing or another. Usually it’s about the evil of plastic bags or how many genders there are or how the Founding Fathers all smoked hemp, dude. The usual venue for these sermons is social media, where I’m […]
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