Frank Buckles

4 Replies to “Frank Buckles”

1. Has to bring something up that is Monty Python. Anyone???

2. Sorry old chap – wrong story!

3. Thanks Kate, for finding that story and posting it!

4. I grew up with men and women who were Mr. Buckles’ peers. My first thought for Mr. Buckles was for how lonely he must feel. The men and women of the early 1900’s were vastly different from the people you meet today. My grandmother (born in 1889) called most of her friends by their last name and always with a title; Mrs. White, Mr. Jones etc. All the men of his generation knew how to ride a horse, how to hitch up a horse and buggy, how to shoot a gun, how to live without electricity or running water. He remembers when women did not wear slacks in public! He remembers when a letter got to it’s destination on time! He remembers when people could smoke cigarettes and tobacco in public enclosed buildings, and when women frowned upon the use of tobacco until they got the vote and started smoking themselves – then women and men merged and became fanatics about the use of tobacco in any shape or form. He also remembers prohibition and then the opposite and then the out and out encouragement of drug and alcohol use.
   I wonder what age he prefers…I wonder how he likes this last phase of history that he is living in? My Mom is 86 and she says she finds this PC world of today stifling and fairly boring.