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1940's
Recently I have stepped back in time by returning home to take care of my Mother. It has given me insights into how I was raised and where my values came from. When we went to our cabins there were always vestiges from an earlier time, a time when the World was in chaos and America was strong. One example is the Life, Look, and even Holiday magazines of the 40's. They are filled with stories, pictures, and adds unseen today. Victory Gardens, canning, home front activities to support the fighting men, women and the nation. Large companies like General Mills, Westing House, General Electric, even companies like Warner Brothers all combined messages of citizen responsibility with subtle advertising. Farmers, Merchant Marines, working women, house wives, etc...all were playing their part to strengthen this nation and make it better. Where is any of that today? I suspect that many here had some of those influences as well. Sounds like that is wrong today, perhaps even criminal...
maybe I should sue someone...
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"It is because they have so much to give and give it so lavishly...that men love the mountains and go back to them again and again." Sir Francis Younghusband
Essayons
By Dand
"In the school of the wilds,there is no graduation day"Horace Kephart
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