The quiet or lost generation.

Our Generation is known as the quiet Generation. After World War two, living as child in America was much different than today. After school, we were pretty much on our own. There was not the organized sports that there are today. We created our own entertainment. There was no television, computers or video games. Before my teenage years, I had a horse to take care of and had chores assigned to me. I took dancing lessons at our family studio and worked some afternoons in our music store. At 15, I started traveling to and from New York City taking dancing and Choreography lessons. I was on my way to becoming a professional dancer. I also taught at our studio. I tried every musical instrument being taught in our studio and discovered I was bad at all of them. The Country was a lot safer then, I never felt in danger. Now children left alone are at risk. If drugs were around, I didn’t see them. I met the love of my life Barbara Schuler. Everything was going along fine then the Korean war started. It was our turn to serve our Country. My plans for becoming a dancer were ended. I went into the Navy and most of my friends went into one of the services. Some just took their chances of being drafted. The Cold war and Korean Conflict, as they were called, was our generation’s war. Those of us traveling to other Countries came back with a totally different view of the world than those remaining home. We are much more liberal than the rest of our generation. I think we were just more exposed to the World. That difference remains to this day. After the Service, I went to work for I.B.M. and married Barbara. We are married to this day. Along the way we had three children and believe we lived in the golden generation of this Nation. Up until our generation, people tended to live in the area they grew up. We went wherever opportunity took us. We as a generation ended the nuclear family. We traveled from New Jersey to live in Rochester Minnesota. From there to Shreveport Louisiana. IF that was not culture shock enough, we moved to California. We ended our working years in Austin Texas. We now are retired, and living in Hot Springs Village Arkansas. Our story is not that different from many in our generation. Along the way, we learned Americans are not that different. I will show you that racism in the South is the same as in the North. It is the one thing, along with Religion, we are still trying to deal with.