No matter what our kids and the new generation think 
about us, WE ARE AWESOME !!! OUR Lives are LIVING PROOF !!!

To Those of Us 
Born 1925 – 
1970: At the end of this email is 
a quote of the month by Jay Leno. If you don’t read anything else, pleaser read what he said. Very well stated, Mr. Leno.

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TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED 
THE 1930s, ’40s, ’50s, ’60s and 
’70s!!

First, we survived being 
born to mothers who may have smoked and/or 
drank while they were 
pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue 
cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for 
diabetes.

Then, after that trauma, we 
were put to sleep on our 
tummies in baby cribs 
covered with bright colored 
lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on 
medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets, and, when we rode our bikes, we had baseball 
caps, not helmets, on our 
heads.

As infants and children, we 
would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat 
belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.

Riding in the back of a 
pick-up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the 
garden hose and not from a 
bottle.

We shared one soft drink 
with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white 
bread, real butter, and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And we weren’t 
overweight. WHY? Because we were always 
outside playing…that’s why!

We would leave home in the 
morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the 
streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us 
all day.–And, we were 
OKAY.

We would spend hours 
building our go-carts out of 
scraps and then ride them down the hill, only to find out we forgot 
the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Play 
Stations, Nintendo’s and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 
channels on cable, no video movies or 
DVD’s, no surround-sound or 
CDs, no cell 
phones, no personal 
computers, no Internet and no chat 
rooms. WE HAD 
FRIENDS and we went outside and 
found them!

We fell out of trees, got 
cut, broke bones and 
teeth, and there were no 
lawsuits from those accidents.

We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, 
ping-pong paddles, or just a bare hand, and no one would call child services to report abuse.

We ate worms, and mud 
pies made from dirt, 
and the worms did not live in us 
forever.

We were given BB guns for 
our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and-although we were told it 
would happen- we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a 
friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just 
walked in and talked to them.

Little League had 
tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to 
learn to deal with 
disappointment. Imagine 
that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the 
law was unheard of. They actually sided with the 
law!

These generations have 
produced some of the 
best risk-takers, problem solvers, and 
inventors ever.

The past 50 to 85 years have 
seen an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, 
success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

If YOU are one of those 
born between 1925-1970, 
CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this 
with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.

While you are at it, forward 
it to your kids, so they will know how brave and lucky their 
parents were.

Kind of makes you want to 
run through the house with scissors, doesn’t it 
?

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The quote of the 
month by Jay Leno:
“With hurricanes, tornados, 
fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms 
tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the 
threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a 
good time to take God out of the Pledge of 
Allegiance?”

For those that prefer to 
think that God is not watching over us…go ahead and delete 
this. Otherwise, feel free to forward.