Comments on: This Baby Boomer Remembers

By: Cindi ~ Moomettesgram

Cindi ~ Moomettesgram — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:28:04 +0000

Thanks for sharing this post. My own Grandmom lived to be 101, and she shared so much thru oral history. There are still times, like now, where I wish I could ask her so much more about the Great Depression.

My DD22 is a sociology major, graduating in May. As I type, she is transcribing for her Final Paper, hours of oral history that she taped when interviewing my DH, her uncle and aunt.

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By: Kaye

Kaye — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:31:59 +0000

Hi Cathy, Thank you so much for writing I remember reading that book about the same time! I loved it, yet it was, indeed, so bittersweet!

One encouraging thing in all this is that while there were many Germans doing awful things, there were so many others doing noble deeds, like Corrie Ten Boom and her whole family helping as best they could, along with the family that was hiding Ann Frank’s family! As Abigail Adams once wrote to her son John Quincy Adams, “It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great challenges are formed…Great necessities call out great virtues.”

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By: Cathy

Cathy — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:38:16 +0000

I don’t know if they still do it but when I was in 6th grade, the whole class was required to read “The Diary of Anne Frank”. That book had such an impact on me and made me realize these were real people, with hoes and dreams. And kids, just like me, that had to go through things no human should have to endure. The one negative thing was that I am 1/4 German and from that time on, I was ashamed of my heritage.