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Originally Posted by Donn
When I was a kid growing up in the 50's and early 60's, there was no cable TV, no video games, no central A/C. There were four channels on rabbit ear TV and kids programming ended around 9am. Mom ran us out of the house.
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I had books, REAL ones.
My grandmother taught me to read and bought me almost the complete set of Doubleday(?) "little black books" on aircraft and submarines of WWII.
While other kids had their minds numbed with sports statistics, I learned about the P-51 and the FW-190. I read about the Japanese airborne operation at Palembang and the Bruneval raid.
When my mother had jury duty, a copy of Hohne's "Order of the Death's Head" followed her home. It's kind of funny refuting Holocaust deniers with information I acquired in grammer school.
I feel like I dodged a deadly bullet... of ignorance.