Those born in 1947...

[kentuck]

After the war had ended... It was near the beginning of the Baby Boom generation. The atomic bomb had been already dropped on Japan. Chuck Yeager had broken the sound barrier. Mahatma Ghandi was fighting for peace and independence in India and passed away early in 1948.

Israel was trying to establish their own independent country after their race was almost decimated from the world with the German extinction movement. Jews were fighting for their very existence.

It seems like we have come full circle.

We have now gone to the moon and beyond. Several countries now have possession of nuclear weapons that can wipe out the world. And Israel is still fighting for its existence.

Over there, the hate is spilling over. It seems like we have learned very little in 76 years.

[peggysue2]

1. I'm appalled that there's so much hate . . .

expressed on our university campuses. It was bad enough when the Tiki-Torch March happened in Charlottesville, led by a bunch of disgruntled, bigoted young men. But college and university campuses have traditionally been a bastion of open, liberal discussion and debate. It's one thing to be critical of Israeli strategy or tactics, particularly during Netanyahu's tenure, but targeting individual Jewish students is beyond the pale, something I simply do not understand, particularly at a moment when our own country is teetering under the weight of its own political crisis.

Extraordinarily wrong-headed and short-sighted. If the purveyors of hate come for the Jews, they'll eventually come for us all. This generation of students need to get their heads out of their asses.

[brush]

2. Yes, peace in the middle east still seems to be an unattainable mirage.

Seems to be right on the horizon but we never get there as some force always sabotages it.

And btw, the baby boom's first year was 1946.

[OLDMDDEM]

3. I agree with you.

I'm 76 years old and it sure seems we have come full circle.