Looks like I am out of voting power, but my words are still here ;)
No need to worry about offending me in regards to American news/propaganda/Presidency as I know so much of it is awful.
Yes, I think, especially as far as the American Dream that many of us feel disgruntled over not being able to work hard and have the nice house with picket fence, two cars and boat for the weekends like many of our parents and grandparents had. Really, that dream (and anger of not experiencing the reality of that dream) is what his campaign was all about, "Let's make America great again." Still surprising to so many of us that he was elected, but I imagine many are angry (even if they don't say) and we were all socialized to believe we are the richest and best country and that anyone can have it all if only they pull themselves up by their bootstraps and work hard. With the lower standards of living it has become too easy to point to another group and blame it all on them for taking too much while taxes are skewed and those at the top grow wealthier and wealthier. I don't know what will happen?
Yes, I have talked a bit with my father, but it took years and he doesn't talk about the bad readily, more about how happy he was to see me and my mother (I was a couple of months old when he returned). He was drafted and already had a bachelors degree on his way to med school (never completed) and so he was placed as a radio repair man, running ahead of and behind troops to fix things. He didn't have to kill anyone, but saw more than he or anyone ought to and younger and uneducated soldiers did not receive him well. He'd been called up later and was 24, college educated from a middle-class home so when he arrived they drew straws, he said he knew they'd rigged it giving him the shortest one determining who would go furthest out in the jungle. He thought he'd be killed and so did he, but the Tet Offensive had just happened there and so where he ended up there was nothing/nobody left and he said in the end he believes that short straw is what saved his life.
Yes, I have always been in charge--first, of my siblings, and then of my own four children. I had my first baby just a month after turning seventeen! Then teaching other peoples kids at school!
I guess I do have much to write about and most of it often comes up in emotional form in my poetry and freewrites.
Well, my son is going to bed and I'd like to wish him sweet dreams, so I'll end for tonight.
Thanks for being proud of me :) Who doesn't like admiration? It's very nice to hear :)
Kimberly