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More and more I'm reminded that young people don't share my recollections of stuff that happened 60 or 70 years ago. You would think common sense would make me understand that but I continue to forget that half the population wasn't even alive as recently as 1973. These folks have no memory of the Korean War, the Kennedy assassinations, the Watergate break-in and other events that to an oldster like me seem to have happened just yesterday. This age gap seldom gets in the way of my conversations with the grandkids. Although they weren't around during World War II they know enough history to carry on an interesting discussion about those days. It's when the talk has to do with cultural figures of the past and present that I realize we live in different worlds. They are shocked when I don't recognize the names of today's show business icons. I'm equally stunned to realize they don't even know there once was a big band era. Consequently I get blank stares when I mention people such...
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