06-28-2021, 02:51 PM
RgrF wrote:
[quote=Lux Interior]
[quote=Racer X]
Today's parents just don't have that historical knowledge.
And thanks to them, we may repeat that history that they have forgotten.
...or that we've neglected/refused to teach them - comes out pretty much the same either way.
Even when it is told by those who remember, too often the response is that it couldn't have been that bad. But I have indirect knowledge of how bad it could be from several sources.
For example, my father was the only surviving child of my grandparents. He had an older brother I am named after who died of one of those childhood diseases almost nobody dies from now. My father was about 6.
Other examples were some of the people my age or slightly older who had been among the last to contract polio before the vaccines were fully out there. One I encountered in 6th grade, he joined our class while his twin sister was in the next grade up. He had suffered kidney damage as a side effect, and had lost a year while getting a transplant.