We Didn't Know We Were Poor

We find ourselves in these early years of the 21st century comparing our current difficult times to the 1930s. "We are in the toughest economic times since the Great Depression," is the often heard expression.

Being a very impressionable little child in the 'Thirties' I have vivid memories of how it was to live and grow up then. I particularily recall the teenagers then. When they were nice enought to let me hang around I would hang on to every expression, every idea and every joke. And forever feeling I could never, as hard as I tried, measure up to them. And it almost seemed like they could'nt grow up fast enough. I guess because they had to. The family needed them to bring in income to help provide the Essentials of life. My respect for them has never waivered to this day.

That Depression began in the first years of the 1930s and lasted up through 1939. No one will ever know how long it would have lasted for Europe was at war and we became productive and supplied implements of war and in 1941 entered that war with the tragic bombing of our navel base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. So the U.S.productivity zoomed and those teenagers went on to become the most incredible and successful warriors in the history of the planet.

And I, as I approached bering a teenager during those war years, said to myself, 'It would be great to write about them and these times, would'nt it? Maybe someday I will.' Well, a few years ago I finally wrote that tributeto them for my grandchildren. I felt so good about it I made it into a DVD narrative. I call it, "The Thirties and The Greatest Generation; through the eyes and recollections of a child."
Please check it out on my website www.berniemoran.com The clips from the DVD might just get you thinking further when you hear, '...the toughest economic times since the Great Depression.'