Okay, here's a 'returned seviceman' story. (a friend's family). So, he returns from the war disabled, addicted to morphine, alcolholic and with severe ptsd. Mostly, he stays in his bedroom. But one day, he figures that he's had enough of life and ties a string between the bedroom door handle and his shotgun. One of his five little kids goes to open the door to see daddy and the rig worked as intended. So one of the kids kills the dad. With little to nothing, the mom is left to raise the kids. As adults the boys end up alcoholics, one commits suicide. Two of the girls end up with lasting mental-emotional problems that puts one of them in the hospital getting shock treatments and the other gal had such a jumpy nature and had speech problems. Okay, some of the kids' problems maybe was because of the DDT that was used to rid the house of bedbugs.
I remember the first chain-link fence that i ever saw. Now, back in the day, VERY few people had a fence, at all, kids and dogs just roamed through town pretty much unhindered. So why in the world did this old couple have a fence like that? Because they had 'abducted' their eldest grandchild from a horribly abusive situation. and were afraid that their kids would come for her/them The 'situation' got so bad that one of the other kids (they had a herd of kids, the pill hadn't been invented or wasn't in use yet) died. The cops went in and found another kid that had been locked in a closet for lord knows how long, starving, listless. Other kids had broken bones, electric burner circles on butts, etc. The dad pleaded that he had no idea what was going on, even though he lived there, and got off scott free. The mom did time or was sent off to the state hospital.
Oh, yes, state hospitals. They were where the rich folks sent their rebellious daughter after the brothers castrated a boyfriend and left him for dead in the city park. None of the brothers did any time.
Girls couldn't take shop of vocational agriculture, because it was a 'boys' class. Besides, they talked about sexual reproduction in the ag classes...we all know that females don't need to know anything about that.
The cops all knew who was cheating on who, as they patrolled the little Mayberry's.
It was automatically assumed that a raped woman asked for it. Ask the old gay guys what they think about those days.
But the Mayberry 'illusion' was upheld by tv media. Don't for a minute believe that times were better then. I certainly don't want to go back to that.
I remember the first chain-link fence that i ever saw. Now, back in the day, VERY few people had a fence, at all, kids and dogs just roamed through town pretty much unhindered. So why in the world did this old couple have a fence like that? Because they had 'abducted' their eldest grandchild from a horribly abusive situation. and were afraid that their kids would come for her/them The 'situation' got so bad that one of the other kids (they had a herd of kids, the pill hadn't been invented or wasn't in use yet) died. The cops went in and found another kid that had been locked in a closet for lord knows how long, starving, listless. Other kids had broken bones, electric burner circles on butts, etc. The dad pleaded that he had no idea what was going on, even though he lived there, and got off scott free. The mom did time or was sent off to the state hospital.
Oh, yes, state hospitals. They were where the rich folks sent their rebellious daughter after the brothers castrated a boyfriend and left him for dead in the city park. None of the brothers did any time.
Girls couldn't take shop of vocational agriculture, because it was a 'boys' class. Besides, they talked about sexual reproduction in the ag classes...we all know that females don't need to know anything about that.
The cops all knew who was cheating on who, as they patrolled the little Mayberry's.
It was automatically assumed that a raped woman asked for it. Ask the old gay guys what they think about those days.
But the Mayberry 'illusion' was upheld by tv media. Don't for a minute believe that times were better then. I certainly don't want to go back to that.
What kind of sport is that ?it’s not like they can really run away now is it…
