My early life can be divided into almost two decades: 1932 to 1942 and 1942 to 1949.
As a young adult after about the mid-1950s, I thought that I had simply grown up in a deprived family because my childhood memories included so much unpleasantness. I hadn’t realized that the deprivation reached all America in one way or another. My thinking didn’t change until I studied life during the Great Depression. History shows that living conditions during my early life were typical for the working class at that time, especially in rural America and especially where I came from. The first line in a copied paragraph that I included below sums it up very well: ‘Even by Depression standards, the Tennessee Valley was in sad shape in 1933.’
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Note: it is not possible to write about that era without mentioning certain political issues. Before I make a wrong impression I must say that I'm neither Democrat or Republican, conservatave or liberal, on the right or left. Those terms seem so ambiguous when used by politicians that I usually don't know where they stand on issues anyway. I do understand promises and performance, right and wrong. I am simply an American voter who always tries to judge each candidate and each issue on individual merits. I am a registered Independent voter. |