My father would have been 99 years old, he was born 8/24/1910
By debrakcarey
@debrakcarey (19887)
United States
August 24, 2009 1:16pm CST
My father was one of 16 children born to my grandparents. All survived. My father actually survived the 1918 flu pandemic. His father was an immigrant to this country from Germany. His mother was of the Ojibwa tribe and was alive at the time of the Wounded Knee Massacre.
Today would have been my father's 99th birthday.
What would he think of this world as it is now....I know before he died (at age 89) he expressed great concern for his grandchildren and great grandchildren, how will they live, what will they think and be. I have been thinking a great deal about him today...and the person he was.
My thoughts also go to his upbringing. And the people who raised him, my grandparents. What would THEY think of this world I live in now. What would THEIR advice be to me and my grandchildren. Would they be pleased with the people we are?
I am just amazed that in just three generations...there is a link to the praire and the tipi....the building of our nation, the tearing down of another...more ancient nation.
What are your thoughts...about how far we have traveled and where we are going?
3 responses
@weasel81 (2496)
• Australia
24 Aug 09
your father still lived to be a ripe old age, and to have so many kids in the family even better for families back then.
we've come a long way in the last 100yrs, techonolgy, society (thou where that's going may be another story) plus everything else we experience in life. i think a lot of our parents and grand parents, would be lost lost today, with all the changes and relience on techonolgy.
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@revellanotvanella (4033)
• United States
25 Aug 09
Looking back, Im 27, appears things have moved at lightening speed, phew. I miss the 80s and 90s more than anything (there was still some sense of community) though because there was that fresh air of innovation but now it just feels like the air has gone stale and even though technology is being developed so rapidly its like we left our own human evolution back somewhere in the dust and not realizing how destructive we are to our own species--I want my children to experience nature and connect to it as much as possible before its wiped out so that if they can survive to see their childrens generation, maybe they'll at least have the memories to hold on to and not be orphans to their own origins, not knowing where they came from--we still return to the dust, these material things are just that, things.
@revellanotvanella (4033)
• United States
25 Aug 09
wow, your father survived 1918, thats a neat story! You probably have developed some strong genes somewhere then, thats awesome your father made you a survivor--don't forget that
@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
25 Aug 09
This world is so very different from the one we hear about from family members, and read about in non fiction or fictional novels. I think that we have come a long way but haven't been paying as much attention to some things that we should be paying attention to. Our world is in danger, we don't pay enough attention to the environment. People are money greedy and that's clouding their judgement and their conscious. I could go on and on about things, but one thing I'm really sore about is construction, I hate it.
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
26 Aug 09
Construction is not the problem...it is how things are constructed and where they are constructed. Trees are renewable...solar energy is free, and with better planning a whole community can actually HELP the environment not hurt it.
