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For those of you born in the years..... read on......... PLEASE...... this

is a very interesting wake up call to all of us.

Alli

*1930 - 1979*

At the end of this email is a quote of the month by Jay Leno. If you don't

read anything else, please

read what he said.

Very well stated, Mr. Leno.

*TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE*

*1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!! *

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they

were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn't get

tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs

covered with bright colored lead-base paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets

and when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster

seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.

Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special

treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one

actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made

with real white sugar. And, we weren't overweight. WHY?

Because we were always outside playing...that's why!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back

when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them

down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the

bushes a few times,we learned to solve the problem.

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We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video

games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound

or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no chat

rooms.

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no

lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and! the worms did not live in us

forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and

tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out

very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang

the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't

had to learn to deal with disappointment.

Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They

actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem

solvers and inventors ever.

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to

deal with it all.

If YOU are one of them? CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as

kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives *for

our own good* .

While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave and

lucky their parents were.!

*Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it ?

*

*~*

The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:

'With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding,

severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and

with the threat ! of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a

good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?'

For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us...go ahead

and delete this.

For the rest of us...pass this on.

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