Yesterday left me in despair. [View all]

[Thirties Child]

Last edited Wed Aug 16, 2017, 11:22 AM - Edit history (1)

I'm 82, have never been as scared for this country as I am today. I'm a depression baby, a card-carrying member of the Silent Generation. I was born in the middle of the dust bowl and lived through 50 major dust storms in my first 72 days of life, still carry some of the dust with me as nodules in my spleen and the upper lobe of my left lung. I lived In Arlington, just outside D.C., during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I lived in Atlanta during the fight for Civil Rights, comforted my husband when he came home after writing about the Birmingham church bombing, the beatings on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Philadelphia Mississippi. I marched in the funeral march for MLK with our two oldest children. With all that, I've never felt so much despair for this country as I feel right now. Thanks for listening. I needed to vent.