Reply #19: MAYBE I AM OFF BASE ON THIS..BUT ... [View All]

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IN THE LATE 60'S AND EARLY 70'S ..IT COST US ABOUT 3,000.00 A YR FOR COLLEGE..TODAY THAT NUMBER CAN BE UPWARDS TO 40,000.00 a yr..we didnt have to work for college at least many of us didnt..today the kids have to work and go to college, and when they are done at the end of the day..they are no hanging around the college or sitting on the great hall steps talking..just talking like we did..when we sat their we talked about each others brothers or sisters in nam..or the neighbors kid...and when the draft began we were sitting in college classrooms with radios as they called the birth dates out over the air...we had real news then..not 100% there was alot of propaganda..but nothing like we are seeing today..we saw the body bags on our nightly news..and consiquently we sat on the stairs at college and got mad together..we plannned how for our brothers to get out of going..we planned how to stop the damn war..but we were communicating in real lfe..when we said..lets go do a protest..we did it...when someone said..moritorium in washington..we all said i'll drive and we set up car pools..we were face to face ..in each others faces...

and the death toll daily was in our face...its not this time..and the kids are going to their apartments and getting on blogs, and just the computer..but they are not getting to talk , to plan, to yell out loud on the school premises..

they may get in small groups..but we are more isolated today..and so are the kids!!
when my son grad college a few yrs ago..i would go to his baseball games , and i would walk the campus..and i would ask ..where are all the kids after classes..my son would say..hey mom most have jobs to survive..i never saw kids sitting around like we did in the 60's and 70's on campus just shooting the shit!

just a thought...theses kids are working so hard today just to survive..
and as for the so called grown ups...most are all working their asses off to survive ..just to simply survive, most don't have the time to dedicate to knowing what we know whats going on..

and most depend on the sound bites of cnn/fox /msnbc, and the networks..if they are not telling them the truth...welllll... most will never know it!!

we are at a real catch 22 aren't we??

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