>>>This was a good date, but the question is "Better days behind us???" that would justify leaving your home country for another...Vietnam War....comes to mind on this one, so it doesn't fall into "Better days".
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>>The past always look greener and brighter than the present and the future when you are old - especially when you are remembering the days when you were young and too preoccupied with your own life to pay attention to what was really happening around you.
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>This, too, depends on "when" you lived.
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>I was born in 1938 and my memories start with everyone being involved supporting the WWII war effort. I recall pulling a wagon around town collecting newspapers and delivering them to a collection center. Two brothers were in the army.
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>Then, another brother to the Korean war, then another, then me. This was the expected thing to do. We were never concerned about the draft....we were all volunteers.
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>I don't recall ever looking back on those years as being the "good old days". The good part was always feeling very proud to be wearing the uniform of the U.S.
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>I never liked war and still don't.
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>Yes, I remember some good things....gas priced at $0.15/gal (gas wars). It sounds good, but I think I was making $1.25/hour. Some might call these the good old days.......not me.

Yet again I salute you for your service of this country. I doubt I will leave it. I am just tired and bored with myself, as The Boss put it. (That would be Bruce Springsteen, "Dancing in the Dark", 1984). Thanks for adding that you volunteered.

I can remember gas for 33 cents a gallon. My first job was pumping gas for my Uncle Mike at his station in Connecticut for $50 a week, under the table. He got his money's worth there. I filled all the tanks by the end of the summer was doing most of the oil fills and lube jobs. He was freed up to do the more lucrative repair work. It seemed like a lot of money at the time. My first legal job was bagging groceries and stocking shelves for $2.40 an hour.