[Schoolcraft, Darrell]  This is pretty cool.  This is just how I remember it.
Please show this to Kara.  I bet Mom can remember back.

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 Subject: Re: "Remember"


> REMEMBER....
>
> When the worst thing you could do at school was smoke in the bathrooms,
> flunk a test or chew gum. And the banquets were in the cafeteria and we
> danced to a juke box later, and all the girls wore fluffy pastel gowns
and
> the boys wore suits for the first time and we were allowed to stay out
till
> 12 p.m....
>
> When a '57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay
rubber
> and watch drag races, and people went steady and girls wore a class ring
> with an inch of wrapped dental floss or yarn coated with pastel frost
nail
> polish so it would fit her finger.
>
> And no one ever asked where the car keys were 'cause they were always in
the
> car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked. And you got in big
> trouble if you accidentally locked the doors at home, since no one ever
had
> a key.
>
> Remember lying on your back on the grass with your friends and saying
things
> like "That cloud looks like a..."
>
> And playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the
game.
> Back then, baseball was not a psychological group learning experience-it
was
> a game.
>
> Remember when stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic
> seals 'cause no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger.
>
> And...with all our progress...don't you just wish...just once...you could
> slip back in time and savor the slower pace...and share it with the
children
> of the 80's and 90's ......
>
> So send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, The Hardy
> Boys, Laurel & Hardy, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, The Lone
Ranger,
> The Shadow Knows, Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk as
well
> as the sound of a real mower on Saturday morning, and summers filled with
> bike rides, playing in cowboy land, baseball games, bowling and visits to
> the pool...and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
>
> When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the
fate
> that awaited a misbehaving student at home.
>
> Basically, we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive
by
> shootings,drugs, gangs,etc.
>
> Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we all
survived
> because their love was greater than the threat.
>
> Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!
>
> And was it really that long ago?
>
>