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FW: [RC] Going back in time... - Mike Sherrell

Do you applaud and cheer every new subdivision that cuts off a ride you used to be able to make?
 

Regards,

Mike Sherrell
Grizzly Analytical
707 887 2919; fax 707 887 9834
www.grizzlyanalytical.com

-----Original Message-----
From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Barbara McCrary
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 8:26 AM
To: Smith, Dave; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [RC] Going back in time...

Applause!  Cheers!
 
B
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 8:09 AM
Subject: [RC] Going back in time...

About 35 years ago (has it really been that long ago?!) I had the "opportunity" to step back about 200 years in time when Uncle Sam sent me and about a million other guys on an all-expenses-paid year-long tour of South East Asia.  While there are those who might wax nostalgically about the "good 'ol days,"  I'm not one of them.  Believe me, living without electricity, air conditioning, refrigeration and just about every other "convenience" of modern American life, is no picnic. The squalor, ignorance and misery of such an environment is overwhelming.  Life under  such conditions is hard, very hard.  Disease and injury are your daily companions.  To live into your 40's is a minor miracle.  I suggest that those who would like us to return to such times spend a year or so with the Peace Corps in a third world nation and really get a taste of it.  I will bet that when you return to the U.S., with all of our so-called superfluous technology, you will do what so many of us did - fall on your knees and kiss the ground of the good ol' US of A.