Published this two years ago today … trying to put context around world events and what they mean to young people and why it might be different to old …

@JohnPhilpin Yeah, your two year old post was a good one, John. I think about this often: I was 7 or 8 years old during the Summer of Love, a child still protected from the world but becoming increasingly aware there was a whole World out there. Some of my playmates older brothers would be going off to Vietnam, all the fathers were World War II or Korean War veterans. There was a shared context that we don't have today. Even little boys, like me, understood in a way, we watched "Combat!" on TV, we had an understanding, however thin or naive, of The War and of what our fathers or uncles had to go through even if they never spoke of it themselves. And for my age group, when you said "The War" it was just understood you were talking about World War II. Today, you have to specify which war you are referring to.

I don't know where I'm going with this but the current world is very differnt from the one I remember. Some things in society are better and some worse, and I guess we'll just have to see what's around the next turn in the road.