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I celebrate an anniversary today, it was
on this date September 3rd on 1963 I did my first radio gig. Seems
like only yesterday. Yesterday, but man was it ions ago.
In 1963 we did not have any anti war rallies,
no feminist movement, no homosexual agenda, no drive by shootings,
we could walk to the store without our parents fearing we would
not return.
In school, our mortal sins were chewing gum
or talking in class. No one brought a weapon on campus. Believe
it or not, some kids had rifle racks on their trucks and rifles
on them. No one stole the rifles, and no one ever thought to bring
the weapon on campus to use it on other students. It was strictly
for hunting.
We called our teachers Mam and Sir, in private
schools it was always Sister or Father. We never used the "F"
word when addressing a teacher, coach, policeman, or God forbid
our parents.
Leslie Gore would have never French kissed
Annette in front of a national audience at an awards show. If
she had, we could not have spoken about it on the radio, nor shown
clips of it on TV.
1963 seems so long ago. Not that it was a perfect
time, far from it. But we did have class.
That's
how I see it!
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Webb's
World ~ 09/03/2003
