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   Erika Snyder on December 26, 2019 at 6:19 pm

   Hello Granpedia, I often hear middle aged to older adults make comments about how different the world is for a child to grow up in as compared to when they were children. They comment on how much more dangerous it is out there, and how much more corrupted everything seems to be. For a child growing up in the 2000’s, when a job is not nearly enough to feed yourself or put yourself through college, and when the next guy is always looking for a leg up, how can I find hope in this world? I know this question may sound bleak, but I believe every era comes with it’s downfalls, so I thought you may have a word for me.

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     Wallace on December 26, 2019 at 9:34 pm

     There’s some truth in everything you’ve said Erika. However, every generation has its own stresses. I was a WWII kid. I witnessed safe streets as well as 500,000 American war dead; the stress faced by the generation that protected our way of life. There’s a reason that Granpedia is set in the town of “Glory” sometime in the 1870’s. Average lifespan of women-40 years; of men-38 years. Lots of men died of “Lead Poisoning” (getting shot). Surviving on the frontier was the stress of that generation. I’ll close with a great quote from a not too popular President: “When the going gets tough, the tough get going”-Richard Nixon

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