Subj : History remade
To   : MICHAEL WENDELL
From : IVY IVERSON
Date : Tue May 23 2000 11:28 am

-=> On 12-21-99  12:34, Michael Wendell (1:379/4) said, <=-
-=> "Hey, Melvin Ahching, about Y2K Toilet Paper,..." <=-
 
Hi, Mike;
 
 MA> Here is something to think about. Kids who were born in the late 1980s
and
 MA> 1990s will never relate to any year beginning with "19".... it will only
 MA> occur to them that this is the stuff you only read about in dusty old
 MA> history books much like how many of us who grew up in the 60s  and 70s
 MA> regard the last century.... 1800s...
 
Or those of us who grew up in the '40s and '50s that can remember as
far back as late in WWII.  For instance, the Cuban missle crisis is
something that you remember only from the history books, but I
lived just outside Washingtion D.C., and can remember that people
were building bomb shelters and talking about what would happen
if/when the Ruskies dropped "THE BOMB" on us.  (And movies like,
"How I quit worrying and learned to love the bomb.")
 
 MW> dont get me started on kids.  :) at my last job, we had a junior high
 MW> history teacher who worked part time.  he brought in one of the new
 MW> history text books that the school distict had just received.  for the
 MW> korean war time period, half of the pictures were stills from M*A*S*H.
 
That's probably what they had the biggest supply of, but I would
hardly call M*A*S*H typical of the Korean war, let alone the
pictures from the series.  I have heard, though, that there was a lot
of truth in many of the situations and personalities portrayed in
that series, like the doctor that thinks the whole thing is an
abomination, the head nurse who denies that she's also an attractive
woman, (but has a romance with a married doctor).  A real-life
Klinger would probably have spent his time in a stockade, but the
Army did, (and does), have it's share of misfits.
 
Catch you later... Season's Greetings to all!
   Ivy
 
 
 
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