:: Da' Militant One's Lair ::

:: Saturday, October 18, 2003 ::

Where Did The Time Go

Where did the time go? Bob Hope died a few months ago at the age of 100. Where did the time go. I remember watch Bob Hope's USO tours during the Vietnam War when I was a kid. I grew up watching The real movie gangsters: Edward G. Robison, Humphrey Bogart, and my main man, James Cagney. They were all born in the 1890s! Leave It to Beaver, The Andy Griffith Show, Dennis The Manace. All of the children in these shows are now over 50 or pushing 50. The Beatles split up 33 years ago! What? How did that happen? I used to watch the Jimmy Durante Show, Red Skelton, and Dean Martin. They are all gone. The Rat Pack is no more and the only surviving member, Joey Bishop, is at least 80, I think. as you can see most of my memories relate to television. Most kids raised in the 60s and 70s will tell you that television was what we did. School, sports, and television, that was how we lived. I remember the 30th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1971, the Kent State Shootings, the Patty Hearst kidnapping and the Lyons Sisters. The Lyons Sisters? They were two little girls, 12 and 10, who disappeared in 1975 on their way to Wheaton Plaza in Wheaton Maryland. They have never been seen or heard from again. Twenty-eight years have past since that day. How does time slip by so rapidly? One minute you are six years old in first grade and the next minute you are past 40 and wondering where the time went. There's no point to this post. I just wonder where all the time went.

:: DM1 10/18/2003 06:16:00 AM [+] ::
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