We were born before the PILL.

We were born before television, penicillin, polio shots, antibiotics,
frisbees, frozen foods, nylon, dacron, Xerox and contact lenses.

We were before radar, flourescent lights, credit cards, split atoms,
laser beams, and ball-point pens.

For us, time-sharing meant togetherness ... not computers or condominiums.
A "chip" meant a piece of wood, hardware meant hardware,
and software wasn't even a word!

In our time, closets were for clothes, not for "coming out of,"
and being gay meant you were happy and carefree.

In those days, bunnies were small rabbits and rabbits were not Volkswagons.

We were before Batman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and Snoopy.

We were before DDT, vitamin pills, disposable diapers, Jeeps, and the Jefferson nickel.

We preceded Scotch Tape, the Grand Coulee Dam, M&M's,
automatic transmissions, and Lincoln Continentals.

When we were in school ... pizzas, Cheerios, frozen orange juice,
instant coffee and McDonald's were unheard of.
We thought fast food was what you ate during Lent and Outer Space
was the back of the Riviera Theater.

We never heard of FM radio, tape decks, electric typewriters,
wordprocessors, digital clocks, artificial hearts
and guys wearing earrings.

We were before pantyhose and drip-dry clothes, ice makers,
dishwashers, clothes dryers, freezers, electric blankets, air conditioners
and before Hawaii and Alaska became states.

We were before yogurt, Ann Landers, plastics, hair spray,
the forty-hour week and the minimum wage
and before man walked on the moon.

We got married first ...and then lived together afterward. How quaint can you be?

In our day, cigarette smoking was fashionable, "grass" was mowed,
"coke" was a cold drink, "pot" was something you cooked in,
"rock music" was a grandmother's lullaby
and AIDS were helpers in the Principal's office.

We were before coin- operated vending machines, jet planes, helicopters,
and interstate highways. "Made in Japan" meant junk
and the term "making out" referred to how you did on your exam.

We were before house-husbands, gay rights, computer dating,
dual careers, and computer marriages. We were also before day-care centers,
group therapy and nursing homes.

We had fountain pens with bottles of real ink.
We had stockings made of real silk with seams
up the back that were never straight.
We had saddle shoes and the '57 Chevy.
We had corner ice-cream parlors with little tables
and wire-back chairs where we had a choice of three flavors.

We hit the scene when there were 5-cent and 10-cent stores
where you bought things for five and ten cents.
You could buy ice cream cones for a nickel or a dime.
For one nickel you could ride a street car, make a phone call,
buy a Pepsi, or enough stamps to mail one letter and two postcards.

You could buy a new Chevy Coupe for $600 ... but who could afford one?
A pity, too, because gas was only 11- cents a gallon.

We were certainly not before the difference between the sexes was discovered,
but we were surely before the sex change ...
we made do with what we had.

And we were the last generation that was so dumb as to think
you needed a husband to have a baby! Can you imagine that?

We wanted our children to have the best, and be the best.

We knew God, and assumed there would never come a time when people didn't.

We believed in Patriotism, and that if necessary, giving one's life for his Country was the right thing to do.

We actually believed that Government service was a higher calling, demanding the best of ourselves in service to our fellow man and our Leaders were duty-bound to exemplify the highest standards in all things.

A lot of things we didn't have, - so we set about to make them. The lists above are only a part. These things we made from our imaginations, hard work, love of Life and Country, and yes, mistakes also, large and small. In an illusion of making things better, we cast aside the old values and welcomed in a new set.

So when you see us now in our older lives and cast judgements over where we are and how we got here, think not too long of the dreams, successes and failures of a generation, but rather the value of what we DID have and how easily it slipped away in the name of misbegotten "progress".

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