My Time With the Ring
By ice rivers
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Since today I'm as young as I'm gonna get, I want to talk about the gift of growing older.
I'm an original baby boomer born almost exactly nine months after my Dad returned from service in World War 2 and my Mom was very glad to greet him. For the last half of the 2Oth century we were the youthful generation hoping to die before we got old and never trusting anyone over 30.
Last time I checked Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey were still on tour although Keith Moon and John Entwhistle had the right stuff and were gone before they got too old and thus missed out on the glory of codger rock.
My Dad was wearing a ring that he had made for himself when he went away and when he came home that day and that night. I'm wearing that ring today. My mother made it to 92 and my Dad made it to 87. I'm 75 half way to 76. I've had and continue to have my brushes with mortality but aside from those, Mrs Lincoln, I'm still immature and not too proud to crow.
When I was young and immature, we switched from the East Coats peanut gallery of Howdy Doody to the West Coast corporate gathering designed for us called the Mickey Mouse club that put us in Mouse ears and coonskin caps which got us ready for sideburns and beatle wigs. Disney kept calling us the citizens of the 21rst century.
And here we are.
Being citizens.
Senior citizens I might add.
Let's see
Big John and Sparky
Gorillas in Korea
Teevee
Howdy Doody
Clarabell speaks his only words on the last show
"Good bye kids"
And then becomes Captain Kangaroo.
Davey Crockett
The Alamo
Elvis
Ed Sullivan
Beatles, Stones, Kinks, DC 5
JFK
Muhammad Ali
Viet Nam
Berlin Wall
Dallas
Draft Cards
MLK
RFK
LSD
Weed
Woodstock
Nixon
Watergate
Hostages
Contragate
War in Iraq
Boomer President
Impeachment
Supreme Coiurt decides Presidency
9/11
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Afghanistan
Obama Care
Obstructionism
Trump
Comey
Pandemic
Impeachment
Insurrection
Impeachment
Big Lies
Global Burning and Frying
Overturning Roe vs Wade.....
yeah that's enough.
Sadly clear where this is going unless.....
We could go back to Hoover when the damn was built and the ring was forged because the ring has been through it all.
Since I'm estranged from my son, I'm not sure who should get the ring when I pass. Therefore, I've decided to live forever or until I get old.
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Hi ice,
Hi ice,
I'm a baby boomer too. I think we lived through the best times and wouldn't change anything. I feel so sorry for the kids today, they have no idea how lucky we were, with the freedom to be anything we wanted because there wasn't any serious rules like today.
Interesting read. I used to love Wagon Train,The Lone Ranger, which we used to watch at Saturday morning cinema, and of course the John Wayne Westerns too.
Happy Days!
Jenny.
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It's all Rock & Roll to me
It's all Rock & Roll to me ... very interesting Ice I mean the history especially I can identfy with much of it - Tom
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