Posted on 06/01/2005 12:10:18 AM PDT by Mama_Bear
(((hugs))) It has been a fun day all around! Thanks for helping to make it so!
G'nite... I'm signing off now, too.
Good night MB.
Goodnight AFP
Goodnight, all.
guess Mama is tucking us in.. night everyone!
First, I have to take exception to one of the items on the list for 8-year olds:
All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset."
In fact, I turned 8 5 months after Pearl Harbor, and we were anything but blissfully unaware, all of America and our citizens and their families immersed in World War II.
We children bought war stamps for our war bond books;
collected scrap paper and metal to be recycled for the war effort;
our parents used ration stamps for rationed needed-for-the-troops for essential goods (coffee; sugar; shoes; butter; etc.);
we wrote "censored" mail to friends and loved ones in the military;
we fully participated by being the one to fill the bathtub with water and turning out all lights in the house, flashlights at the ready, in Blackout Drills, with wardens on every block in cities;
were up to date on the war with newspapers, magazines, radio reports and Foxtone films at the Saturday matinees --
We children played "WAR" in the empty lots, digging foxholes against the comping Germans/Japanese --
and learned to identify most of their aircraft, should we see them in our skies --
not unlikely in Miami (I then lived in Coral Gables, a suburb) where German subs were seen right in Biscayne Bay - my own father saw one surface briefly there.
This is why I am so adamant about *not shielding* the children of today from 9/11 and the War on Terror; etc. --
It is a *GOOD THING* for them to work out possible scenarios and how they would honorably respond to any threat to their environment -- to develop *LIFELONG COPING SKILLS* that will do them in good stead!!
(Not to mention turning their blood into ribbons of red, white and blue..:))
Dolly, you are so much on my mind right now. Hope you know that. (((((((((Dolly and "Mom")))))))))))
I finally *looked* at it a little differently and scored 100%!
Billie, that sentence is a sermon. So often when we are in a situation where we can see no way out, we need to get still and look at the situation a little differently and we will see the way out. That is what the Holy Spirit does for us. Let's us see things differently.
I LOVE this response to my post. ((((((((((Nan))))))))))
Hey girl. I just slipped back over to see if anyone was here. I thought everyone had gone to bed. Yeah, I loved that sentence. You gave me a great idea for a sermon.
Am so glad - never dreamed of it that way, but it's true. I'm off to bed now, too. Don't stop in very often this late. :) Nite! Hi and g'nite, Maggie!
Goodnight Billie. Glad I got to say hi.
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Lots of hugs for Billie, too - good night..:))
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