By Dr. Bruce Smith —— Bio and Archives--March 7, 2022
There were many things I took for granted growing up. We were a family of five, the folks and we three brothers. Both sets of grandparents lived in the same small town with us. My dad worked to support us and my mom worked at home to take care of us. One brother went to the elementary school down the road and the other attended the junior high school in town. While we lived in that small town, I was too young to go to school.
Both grandfathers worked at the Chrysler plant in town and had done so since the early 1930s. One grandmother was at home, never having worked outside the home, and the other began cooking at the clinic in town during the war, then later became an LPN.
My dad was born at home in this town in 1921 just after his parents moved there and my mother was born at home in Tennessee in 1922, just before her parents made the same move. They went to the schools in town and began their adult lives. My mother graduated from high school in 1940, and my dad from the same school in 1941. Then the war started. The Comment section of online publications is the new front in the ongoing Cancel Culture Battle.
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By John Sutherland on 2022 03 07
Excellent article. I'm fairly deep into family research, so articles like this one are invariably interesting.
I agree that life is often cyclical, and early life problems can recur. Why do they recur? I suspect it is because the country's shadow rulers don't change out as often as we would like. I also suspect the shadow rulers become largely sociopathic as time goes on, and they tend to NOT support the common man.
In fact, we are in the midst of a global population reduction effort caused by a medical pandemic and poisonous mRNA shots that allegedly cures the pandemic. Add to this the constant international strife and wars, and you have a world the eugenicists in life can only dream about.
So, yes, I like historical reviews as I can learn from them. I only need another 100 years of life to learn more about the crazy human animals. 😉
By Centrewing on 2022 03 07
What a wonderful life you had with great parents and family great to read, thank you for sharing.
By Sue on 2022 03 07
Thank you Dr Smith for this article. I too grew up w/parents of the 20-30’s and the divided house of Democrats and Republicans. I was able to come away w/a perspective that no one has the exclusive answer to a nation’s or world’s problems. There’s where the friction has grown so divided… each thinks they have the exclusive answer and it leaves out the reasoning at the kitchen table.
By Barbara on 2022 03 07
My parents were the same age. I grew up in the 50's and 60's. I heard about WWII and the depression. I heard how grateful my mom was that my grandfather was able to take care of them all the way through that. I heard that my dad endured hunger as his single mother was extremely affected by the depression with 3 small children. I heard that he ate a lot of potatoes and onions. This is why, when I saw Irish Spring soap on sale at K-Mart when I was in my 30's - I really stocked up. The young girl in front of me at the register remarked how I reminded her of her grandmother who lived through the depression. I never lived through it, but I learned the lessons. (Also, I have had very poor times in my life.) This young girl couldn't imagine stocking up on things. Someday if things get bad ( maybe sooner than we think) she may run out of soap and remember me; wishing she had stocked up. I learned about the world through my parents and grandparents - not just school.
By Kent King on 2022 03 07
Thank you, Dr. Bruce Smith. So much to say. I feel so lucky to have been raised by my folks who lives in those times, The Greatest Generation. We are the Luckiest Generation.
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