this date 29 years before I was born.. women did not have the right to vote

[Peacetrain]

My Grandmother could not vote when she turned 21 (age of voting at that time) It came in August of 1920.. The Civil war ended 55 years before that (1861 to April 1865.. My Dad's Grandma was an adult during the Civil war.. He knew her well as a little boy.. and the Revolutionary war ended 78 years before the Civil War started. Revolutionary ended in April of 1783 (1775 to 1783)

Our history is so close to us.. touch me and you touch someone who knew well stories from the Civil War from my father from his Grandmother..touch my Dad (who has passed) and you would have touched someone whose Grandma's mother knew people who fought in the Revolutionary War...

There are times I know we want to throw up our hands and say it is just nuts.. but look how far we have come.. and our fighting to keep the Trumpites and Putinistas exposed for what they are trying to do is worth all the work.. and that work is talking to your neighbors and getting out to vote.. and not being easily dismayed..

[Lars39]

1. I realized this when talking with my dad

He had a fantastic memory…he was recounting how he realized that the horrible cold “spell” that his elders told him about was The Little Ice Age!
I also remember commenting on how vicious some political race had become, and he said “Oh, this isn’t bad at all.”

[Peacetrain]

2. It is amazing what a young country we are..

Sometimes we look at period pieces.. movies etc and think.. wow that was so long ago.. when really it can be just a few generations back.. I was born right after WW2 and of course that just seems forever ago for me.. but my Dad was on Omaha Beach in WW2 and I remember his story telling.. especially in the last few years of his life.. and it was so real to me, it was like I lived it myself.. that is how he felt about his Grandmas stories of the Civil War.. and so forth and so on..

[Lars39]

3. Good in many ways,

until tribalism takes over. Is it how the stories are told? The perspective? I don’t know what causes the knowledge to be skewed towards that.