draculaz opened this issue on Feb 24, 2005 ยท 99 posts
Nukeboy posted Sat, 26 February 2005 at 11:37 AM
I'll be 42 on the seventh of next month. After a week of training and PT with folks half my age, I feel about sixty. I've got aches in places I never knew I had! Considering I've been in this profession for half my life, it was kind of depressing to find out I'm not as fast, strong or tough as I was when I started. Oh well. One thing that does amaze me about today's "youth" (at least here in the US) is not that they never knew a time without computers, never saw a rotory dial phone, have a bizzilion channels to surf, it's their lack of even knowing about the past. I was talking with a coworker the other day about "Check Point Charlie" in East Berlin. One of the newer officers asked, "What's that?" He didn't know about East Germany, the Berlin Wall or even the Soviet occupation of eastern Europe -- all things that happened in his life time. Don't they teach history anymore?