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Ralph, Thank you for the story, it is great. Gene G. On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 00:17:11 -0800 "Ralph Finch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following > any advice in this forum.]---- > > > Heh. > > My Grandfather was born in 1878. He rode in horse-and-buggies and > trains. > > He was 25 when the Wright brothers first flew a powered airplane. > > He died a year after men walked on the moon. > > He had TB twice and damn near died from each one. The "cure" was to > go > west, which he did, where he met my grandmother. > > My grandmother died of cancer when my mother was twelve. Medicine > was so > much quackery before WWII. > > He saw two World Wars, other wars and totalitarianism of all kinds, > death > from diseases that were then untreatable, and terrible racism, > including his > Bay Area Japanese-American neighbors being forced from their homes > into > concentration camps. > > He also saw his 4 grandchildren born and grow to their teen years. > We sort > of came out OK, maybe. I don't know how I'd have ended up if I had > lived > through what he had to. > > I don't get romantic about the "old" days. They sucked in many > ways. Maybe > we are built to have a certain amount of natural fear in our lives. > Our > kids today don't have any, so they are compelled to create their > own. Isn't > that one reason why many of us fly? Ordinary American life is > boring and > safe, except when you drive on the freeways to the airport. > > Ralph > > > ========================================================================= ===== > To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm > Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/ > > > > > ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/
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