1940's, very well done.

This is interesting to watch

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The 1940s 
http://oldfortyfives.com/decadeofthe1940s.html


Re- Decade of the forties- SamKat



Monday, August 8, 2011

Re- The Decade of the forties ... Thanks Sonny Hoskins!

Labels Forties, Patriotism

Glad you are back, Sonny! There are a lot of vivid memories for us. Jeanie became ten and I became eight in 1940. President Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor message was so etched into our minds. My brother, George, four and a half years younger, probably only remembers the post war years. The five additional Kegley kids born after George remember lilltle of the 40's although Jim and Mary Lou were born in the late decade. Dad (Forest E.) and mom (Mary eleanor),Ted, who was a heroic medic in Europe, Joan, Forest, Jr. (Bud) and Mary Lou are now deceased. Bud and I were non-combat veterans of cold war and Korean draft vintage.









That is why we older ones tend to the conservative side of today's politics. The USA had become a sleeping giant in regards to preparation for war. Our factories were certainly not in full production all over the country, but they quickly became active and women were making guns and goods for the active service people. Rationing for civilians occurred so as to support our troops overseas. Rubber was difficult to get from Indonesia, tin was tough to acquire to plate steel cans for food, etc.







I tutor young people today at Columbus State Community College. The ones I tutor, many are immigrants, have poor preparation from their earlier experiences, but most are eager to make the grades in a subject they dread in a large way. I am impressed that they too could rise to become proud of this country God has blessed above all others. The war and post war years of the forties and fifties had so much patriotism among us, anti Americanism was just not to be tolerated.







Tolerance and freedom were won through that war's efforts by Americans, but many subsequent wars have been more politically incited in my estimation. We would NOT have tolerated so many indignant foreigners during and immediately after that war.







I am so happy my sons avoided a draft, although lotteries were not as fair as the actual draft involving all able-bodied men. Women entered service later and have become so important in America's defense.







Ah, friend, you have brought a melancholy strand of thought. Brother George will love best the 1946 Hudson in the video. We had one about 1950. New cars were not becoming available so soon after the war. Dad loved the Hudson cars!



Thanks Mr. Hoskins!



Sam Kegley

The pickle jar ... Thanks Bob Looney!

*The pickle jar as far back as I can remember sat on *


*The floor beside the dresser in my parents' *

*bedroom. When he got ready for bed, Dad would empty *

*his pockets and toss his coins into the jar.*



*As a small boy, I was always fascinated at the sounds*

*the coins made as they were dropped into the jar**. **They *

*landed with a merry jingle when the jar was almost *

*empty. Then the tones gradually muted to a dull thud *

*as the jar was filled. *



*I used to squat on the floor in front of the jar to admire *

*the copper and silver circles that glinted like a pirate's *

*treasure when the sun poured through the bedroom *

*window. When the jar was filled, Dad would sit at the *

*kitchen table** a**nd roll the coins before taking them to *

*the bank. *



*Taking the coins to the bank was always a big production. *

*Stacked neatly in a small cardboard box, the coins were *

*placed between Dad and me on the seat of his old truck.*



*Each and every time, as we drove to the bank, Dad would *

*look at me hopefully. 'Those coins are going to keep you *

*out of the textile mill, son. You're going to do better than *

*me. This old mill town's not going to hold you back.' *



*Also, each and every time, as he slid the box of rolled *

*coins across the counter at the bank toward the cashier, *

*he would grin proudly. 'These are for my son's college *

*fund. He'll never work at the mill all his life like me.' *



*We would always celebrate each deposit by stopping *

*for an ice cream cone. I always got chocolate. Dad *

*always got vanilla. When the clerk at the ice cream *

*parlor handed Dad his change, he would show me the *

*few coins nestled in his palm. 'When we get home, *

*we'll start filling the jar again.' He always let me drop *

*the first coins into the empty jar. As they rattled around *

*with a brief, happy jingle, we grinned at each other.. *

*'You'll get to college on pennies, nickels, dimes and *

*quarters,' he said. 'But you'll get there; I'll see to that.'** *



*No matter how rough things got at home, Dad continued *

*to doggedly drop his coins into the jar. Even the summer *

*when Dad got laid off from the mill,and Mama had to *

*serve dried beans several times a week, not a single *

*dime was taken from the jar. *



*To the contrary, as Dad looked across the table at me, *

*pouring catsup over my beans to make them more *

*palatable, he became more determined than ever to *

*make a way out for me 'When you finish college, Son,' *

*he told me, his eyes glistening, 'You'll never have to *

*eat beans again - unless you want to.' *



*The years passed, and I finished college and took a *

*job in another town. Once, while visiting my parents, *

*I used the phone in their bedroom, and noticed that *

*the pickle jar was gone. It had served its purpose *

*and had been removed. *



*A lump rose in my throat as I stared at the spot beside *

*the dresser where the jar had always stood.. My dad *

*was a man of few words: he never lectured me on the *

*values of determination, perseverance, and faith. The *

*pickle jar had taught me all these virtues far more *

*eloquently than the most flowery of words could have *

*done. When I married, I told my wife Susan about the *

*significant part the lowly pickle jar had played in my *

*life as a boy. In my mind, it defined, more than *

*anything else, how much my dad had loved me. *



*The first Christmas after our daughter Jessica was born, *

*we spent the holiday with my parents. After dinner, Mom *

*and Dad sat next to each other on the sofa, taking turns *

*cuddling their first grandchild. Jessica began to whimper *

*softly, and Susan took her from Dad's arms. 'She probably *

*needs to be changed,' she said, carrying the baby into my *

*parents' bedroom to diaper her. When Susan came back *

*into the living room, there was a strange mist in her eyes. *



*She handed Jessica back to Dad before taking my hand *

*and leading me into the room. 'Look,' she said softly, her *

*eyes directing me to a spot on the floor beside the dresser. *

*To my amazement, there, as if it had never been removed, *

*stood the old pickle jar, the bottom already covered with *

*coins. I walked over to the pickle jar, dug down into my *

*pocket, and pulled out a fistful of coins. With a gamut of *

*emotions choking me, I dropped the coins into the jar. I *

*looked up and saw that Dad, carrying Jessica, had slipped *

*quietly into the room. Our eyes locked, and I knew he was *

*feeling the same emotions I felt. Neither one of us could *

*speak. *



*This truly touched my heart. Sometimes we are so busy *

*adding up our troubles that we forget to count our *

*blessings.Never underestimate the power of your actions. *

*With one small gesture you can change a person's life, for *

*better or for worse. *



*God puts us all in each other's lives to impact one another *

*in some way. Look for GOOD in others.. *



*The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or *

*touched - they must be felt with the heart ~ Helen Keller *



*- Happy moments, praise God. *

*- Difficult moments, seek God. *

*- Quiet moments, worship God. *

*- Painful moments, trust God. *

*- Every moment, thank God. *



*Pass this message to seven people except *

*you and me. You will receive a miracle *

*tomorrow - don't question..(just do it)*



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Newsmax- obama engineering America's destruction

Limbaugh on Market Collapse: Obama Engineering the Decline of America


Monday, 08 Aug 2011 06:17 PM



By Jim Meyers



Forward Article Top-rated talk radio host Rush Limbaugh finds a “silver lining” in the downgrading of America’s credit rating: There no longer is any doubt that President Barack Obama can be roundly defeated in 2012.



“Obamageddon — that's what we have witnessed since Friday,” Rush told his listeners on Monday.



“Obamageddon. Barackalypse Now. The only silver lining I can find is that as far as 2012 goes, Obama's a Debt Man Walking. Anybody want to tell me he's not landslidable now?



“Let me repeat this as the Media Tweak of the Day: ‘What we have witnessed since Friday is Obamageddon, Barackalypse Now. And the only silver lining out there is that as far as 2012 goes, Obama's now Debt Man Walking."





In his blistering attack on Obama and the Democrats, Limbaugh asserted that “we have a president that’s overseeing — engineering — the decline of the American republic.”



He also charged that Democrats are trying to play the blame game against Republicans over the financial crisis.



“Obama is always running around complaining and whining and moaning about all that he inherited from George W. Bush,” Rush said.



“Well, he inherited a AAA credit rating, an unemployment rate of 5.7 percent.



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Limbaugh's comments came the Monday after Standard & Poor's downgraded the U.S. credit rating from AAA to AA-plus , and the Dow tanked 634 points. Obama blamed the downgrade on political gridlock in Washington and said he would offer some recommendations on how to reduce federal deficits.



Obama stopped short of sharp criticism of Standard & Poor's for its downgrade of U.S. debt to AA-plus from AAA on Friday. Senior administration officials have accused S&P of going ahead with the downgrade despite a $2 trillion mathematical error.



"Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America. No matter what some agency may say, we have always been and always will be a triple-A country," Obama said.



As Obama spoke, stock markets were registering another steep decline, dropping more than 450 points in afternoon trading.



A joint bipartisan congressional committee, to be formed under the legislation passed last week that averted a government default, is to report its recommendations in late November on how to cut $1.5 trillion in spending over a decade.



Obama said he would offer his own recommendations for fixing the problem and cited again the need to raise taxes on wealthier Americans and make modest adjustments to popular but expensive entitlement programs.



Limbaugh took the president's comments about the S&P, and threw them right back.



“What are the Democrats doing? Blaming the referees! Blaming Standard & Poor's! That always changes the outcome, doesn't it? Blame the refs.



“So go ahead and blame Standard & Poor's all you want, Democrats. Now they're blaming the military! Barney Frank and the Democrats are trying to say it's the military's fault that we've been downgraded.



“This is the fault of the Democrat Party," Limbaugh said, exasperated.



Limbaugh went on to say: “So now we know what Obama got for his birthday: A downgrade of our credit rating, probably exactly what he wanted in his heart of hearts . . .



“World War II, we had a AAA credit rating, and we lose it now, and for what? For what great purpose did we lose it? Except an ideological hatred of American capitalism and a love of class warfare, what did we lose our AAA rating for?



“Think about it: Obama's finally managed another major accomplishment on that list he told us he had, that list that he said he'd only done about 70 percent so far. At long last, Obama and his fellow Democrats have finally been able to convince the world that we are just another country, after all. There's nothing exceptional about us or our economy.



“For crying out loud, France has a higher credit rating than we do. France! They produce cheese and perfume, for crying out loud!”



But one person who does not buy into the theory that Obama is deliberately undermining the economy is Donald Trump. The billionaire developer said on Monday that the president is incompetent not malicious.



“There is a theory that he is doing it on purpose but I absolutely do not believe that. He’s just ill-equipped to be president,” Trump told New York’s WOR radio. “Tremendous wrong moves are being made.”



Host Steve Malzberg asked him if he thinks that Obama takes a sip of champagne every time a trillion dollars goes out of the economy.

“No, I really don’t,” replied Trump. “You just have a president who is not doing a good job."







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