[or-roots] Patriotism, etc.

[kat1928 at integrity.com]

Quoting Verdena Veelle <vveelle at molalla.net>:

> Dorothy it looks like you did a very good thing with your post.  I get
> so sick of the
> people who want to do nothing but put our country down.  The
> entertainers who have so much
> seem to be among the worst and the media is pretty bad also.
> 
> I am only 60 but have been disabled since 1997 when I almost died from a
> rare occurrence
> involving an infection in my chest.
> 
> I grew up on a farm and had quite strict parents.  They were older also.
>  My father lost
> his first wife and he had four children.  My mother was told she would
> never had children
> but when she was 36 she got pregnant with me.  My father was either 7 or
> 9 years older
> than her.  My father enlisted for W.W.I but had to get out to help his
> parents, my
> half-brother served in W.W.II and my own son was in the Navy for five
> years.
> 
> It was only by my father and mother's resourcefulness that we survived I
> believe.  Mother
> was a teacher in one room schools but in the summer she gardened and
> canned all the time.
> We had cows and chickens for milk and eggs.  She baked a lot.  She
> picked the wild berries
> and even gathered dandelion greens.  She butchered the chickens which we
> usually had for
> Sunday dinner and had company almost every Sunday also.
> 
> I agree that we are spoiled and even though we don't have as much as
> some we have so much
> more that our parents would never have even dreamed off.  I picked
> berries and green beans
> in the summer to get money to buy my school clothes.  I realize that
> even my childhood
> would have seemed luxury to my grandparents and great-grandparents.  
> What would they
> think today when we take so many things for granted?
> 
> I do believe that most people interested in genealogy have the tendency
> to honor the past
> more so than those who are not into it.
> 
> There are many wonderful people on this list.  Good to hear from Cecil
> again.
> Verdena Veelle
> 
> 
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You come from good pioneer stock.  People had to do with what they had.  Even 
when I was growing up and during my marriage, I drew from what I learned from 
my parents resourcefulness.

I still miss those early dandelion/lambsquarter/ dock/ misc. weed greens!
They are the best.  They seemed to contain a good dose of vitamins
that everyone needed after a long winter.  I long to stop the car and gather
 some but along the road they are covered with lead and polution.
elsewhere the dogs have "fertilized" them so I go without.> 

I wish I lived on an acreage and I would enjoy them every Spring.
Aren't there some delicious berries growing wild too!
We lived off the land and those "hard times" were special.  Families
were closer and it was nice to warm in front of a wood stove and
enjoy the love of your family.  I really believe some of my most
wonderful times were when we were"poor"- according to today's standards.

I'm not saying everything was good but there were good times - even
in a violent family atmosphere like I grew up in.

Nice hearing your remembrances.

Dorothy