TUT Broadcast March 24, 2016

I am just a few years younger than Mr. Cortina and remember that innocence he speaks of, that earlier, cleaner innocently imperfect North America when there were standards people were held up to. This is far more than the maudlin remembrances of an old timer… “When i was young I walked to school 8 miles uphill through a sandstorm both ways.”…

When I was in Grade 11, (Catholic private school) in art class, one day I made a mistake and said… “Oh, shoot!”. The nun suspended me for three days for saying “Oh, sh!t” a word I had never even HEARD before. Yes, that sheltered. When I said that, I was told basically it was the same only a cheap out to use an alternative….

I remember being punished for saying “damn” by my father. My brothers had consequences for their actions and, believe me, one of them had a LOT of consequences!

Many times over the years I have dealt with the horrific things that my / our generations have dealt with (or made worse) together ~ the effects of hippiedom, free love (NOT!), feminism, Communism, wars, the actions of the chosen upon us all personally and in life in general. Like you, I have been disgusted with how we handled things and have apologized to my daughters more than once for the mess we bequeathed them.