…I know times are getting hard But just believe me, girl Someday I’ll pay the bills with this guitar We’ll have it good We’ll have the life we knew we would… –From the Plain White Ts and Hey There Delilah If Generation X was born with or raised in the shadow of the Cold War, […]
Will the spirit of America return on the wings of wars, disasters , pandemic and economic collapse?
Japanese lanterns by David Paneven via Flickr with Creative Commons License Is this spirit of America close at hand? Generation X braces for War, Revolutions, Natural Disasters, Economic Collapse, Nuclear Accidents, Secession and Pandemic. Who knows what tomorrow brings — From Cocker and Warnes and the 1982 Up Where We Belong The writer of the […]
Generation X Gulf War: Warless Angst of Gen X
I have seen in your eyes a fire of determination to get this job done quickly so that we may all return to the shores of our great nation. My confidence in you is total. Our cause is just! Now you must be the thunder and lightning of Desert Storm. —General Norman Schwarzkopf Photo left, […]
Cold War Cartoons and Commericals That Shaped Our Fear of Russia
Yesterday, CNN reported that Russia has tested its first stealth fighter jet, the fifth-generation Sukhoi. The plane is the country’s first fighter jet based on the stealth technology and is reportedly Russian’s answer to the American F-35 and F-22 jets. Cold War Cartoons With that in mind, this week’s Saturday Cartoon post features four examples […]
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 40th Anniversary
This is my story about how I discovered The Garden of The Finzi-Continis, a story about Italian Jews in World War II by Giogio Bassani. Micol Finzi-Contini I became acquainted with Micòl the year I turned 14. A beautiful, blond Italian Jew, I guess you could say she kept me company every day after school […]
Gen X in Iraq Blog
A Navy Reservist who has been mobilized to serve in Iraq has started a blog, Gen X in Iraq. He’s currently training in Ft. Jackson, South Carolina. The average age of U.S. Soldiers killed in Iraq is 30. In World War II it was 26 and in Vietnam, 19. There are many different sources for […]
Astonished | Why Must Boys Go Off To War?
Today, while rocking Sully to sleep, I prayed I would become more fully mother; that I would seize the next few years of early childhood and adolescence and joyfully wrap myself in the painfully perpetual tasks of mothering: sorting laundry, washing laundry, drying laundry, folding laundry, putting laundry away. I know this time is going […]