I wrote a long reply and deleted it inadvertently - I think
Sure, I knew Chuck. My graduated class was little more than 100 from a 4 town regional school district! So everyone knew everyone and Chuck was a guy I knew most of my life. And there were a lot of kids in small town NH that never saw 18 through drugs, booze, car wrecks and guns.…
I wrote a long reply and deleted it inadvertently - I think
Sure, I knew Chuck. My graduated class was little more than 100 from a 4 town regional school district! So everyone knew everyone and Chuck was a guy I knew most of my life. And there were a lot of kids in small town NH that never saw 18 through drugs, booze, car wrecks and guns. And many more who were lost to Vietnam.
I don’t think that much has changed in my lifetime. Different Drug epidemics, more gun violence & accidents, safer car wrecks but plenty of American carnage to go around.
Regarding who I wanted to prove what a man I was? Me & everybody else too! And I think that reason rings true today. Lots and lots of insecure young men, perhaps more alienated & alone but insecure nonetheless that feel powerful with a killing instrument in their hands.
Thanks and good evening or good morning as the case may be when you read this.
Thanks for your reply. (It's morning now.) As a retired social science teacher (history, geography, government, etc.), I want to know why there are so many insecure young men. Is it because the economy has changed so drastically that high school graduates can no longer get good-paying manufacturing jobs. Is it because relationships between men and women have so drastically changed that men without a good income are not good marriage material and women have the option now of not marrying or marrying later in life?
I wrote a long reply and deleted it inadvertently - I think
Sure, I knew Chuck. My graduated class was little more than 100 from a 4 town regional school district! So everyone knew everyone and Chuck was a guy I knew most of my life. And there were a lot of kids in small town NH that never saw 18 through drugs, booze, car wrecks and guns. And many more who were lost to Vietnam.
I don’t think that much has changed in my lifetime. Different Drug epidemics, more gun violence & accidents, safer car wrecks but plenty of American carnage to go around.
Regarding who I wanted to prove what a man I was? Me & everybody else too! And I think that reason rings true today. Lots and lots of insecure young men, perhaps more alienated & alone but insecure nonetheless that feel powerful with a killing instrument in their hands.
Thanks and good evening or good morning as the case may be when you read this.
Thanks for your reply. (It's morning now.) As a retired social science teacher (history, geography, government, etc.), I want to know why there are so many insecure young men. Is it because the economy has changed so drastically that high school graduates can no longer get good-paying manufacturing jobs. Is it because relationships between men and women have so drastically changed that men without a good income are not good marriage material and women have the option now of not marrying or marrying later in life?