Children in the Times before

I have read or heard that as people age their short-term memory weakens and memory Long term becomes stronger. In recent years, from personal experience, I can tell you that this is a true statement. I am sixty-six, which means I was born in 1943 in the midst of the Second World War. I still have some of my food ration cards to prove it. At this young age, I have trouble remembering what happened yesterday, but I can remember parts of my past as if it were yesterday.

He came to me a few days ago that if I have these memories that I'm probably set them on paper in case anyone (But it is doubtful) might be interested, now or in the future. I remember during the pre-teen and teen collection of documents, photographs, letters, postcards, a small painting done on paper and a map of colleges partial report, dating from the late 1800s to early 1900s. These items were given to me by my grandmother, great-aunt and other older relatives before they passed away. All these items were related relatives. They have made a deep impression on me, and for the rest of my life. So much so that history has been one of my majors in college. I still have all those articles and I am always fascinated by history.

I was born in 1300 McPherson St., Oxford, Alabama. It was a birth home, because most people could not afford a hospital for days and we were certainly among the "most people" group. Home was the place of my maternal grandparents, which was just before or just after I jumped into the world, updated with the addition of a bathroom door and gas heat. Shortly after my birth, my mother and my father left in a small mill village house belonging to the industry textile mill where my father worked. About a year later, they divorced. It was an unpleasant and hostile divorce which resulted in me never know my biological father. Although my mother remarried when I was about fourteen years, there has never been any brothers or sisters. I am told that my father remarried and had children, but I've never met.

Being an only child seems to be a problem with some people or at least that is what the psychologist today we seem to believe. For my part, was happy to be an only child because I've never had to fight with anyone for attention, toys or just to get what I wanted. I am particularly glad I had no brothers and sisters after observing my children when they were little and now my children Great.

My mother and I went back in the house of my grandparents after the divorce with my aunt who is also divorced. So for the next thirteen years, which was where I grown. My mother worked days in a local factory GE and went out and a lot at night. This left me to be raised slightly about the grandmother and the first grandchild, I ran away with a lot. This does not mean that my grandmother was pushed. She had a hard life wedding a horse dealer, moon shiner and peddler of fruits and vegetables.

My mother tells the story of the time they lived in a hut in a very rural area, near Oxford. It seems she was just big enough and big enough to look out the window when one afternoon, she saw her father running down the dirt road, stop at the mailbox and put something in it. He then continued to run on the road. Mother told her mother what she had seen. Mom fetched and returned with a dead rabbit and a note. The note says: "Here is the dinner revenuers hit ongoing in Georgia will be back when I can. "My grandmother took care of expenses and her three children by taking in washing and ironing. My grandfather came About two months later.

childhood is not too early to clear because of the stories I heard repeated events specific as arriving at the house of my Uncle Jim to the front after the war, I push my chair to the table strong enough to topple a large jar on a cupboard my head, a young playmate to death and later an older child in the street telling me that there was no Santa Claus. I think I do remember, but I'm not sure. Therefore, the details of this will start around the age of six years and the first year.

Since money is usually of short duration in the household I never attended any kind of preschool education was not used to order and discipline. I was not comfortable with strange adults, such as a teacher. On my first day of school, I remember crying and clinging to my mother. Later the first day I remember being too embarrassed to tell the teacher that I had to go to the bathroom and I ended up peeing in my pants. To say the least, it was a delicate moment for a period six years.

My childhood was mostly utopian, with the exception of the requirement of Silly school would not could be better. I lived in a street where there were many other children to play with. Our street is pretty much the end of construction for many years and I remember when the dirt road in front of the house was being opened. We lived at the foot of a hill, which for most was Forest up and underdeveloped. This has caused many hours of exploration and play cowboys and Indians, and war, according to how many of us, there was in the pack that day. There was an outcrop of rocks near the summit which was a great fortress.

When I was very young, say five to seven years, one of my favorite play once played house with one or other of two young girls with whom I was more close friends. My grandfather had an old barn behind the house on which more or less fell into disuse. The girls and I would climb into the attic and claim that it was our house. Girls in general has a small doll to care for our child and we decorate the places of our best with what only bits of discarded furniture, wood for tables, ball baskets and chairs for all that we could scrounge. I think I was the happiest in the company of women since that time.

When I was a little more than another great time was taken up cycling. As our other summer activities, it was not uncommon to leave home at 8:00 Saturday morning during the months of school or any what day during the summer holidays, for a walk every day bike or any other activity and not show back up shortly near sunset. It was a safer world in the semi rural small town America at the time. We also wanted to play polo with our bikes as our horses and a stick long enough to reach the ground to hit the ball. Sticks in the wheels of bike is moving many painful losses of the skin and blood playing this game

Which was not nearly as much fun as building race cars all this material we could scrounge and racing on the narrow road near my house. These gadgets usually collapses or become uncontrollable and went into a ditch halfway down. Thus, a new extraction of the skin and the blood was the usual result.

When I still in a stroller my grandmother time to take me downtown Oxford at the theater than watching productions watch Roy Rodgers, Gene Autry, Tom Mix, Johnny Mc Brown, Lash Larue, and the team of Red Rider and Little Beaver, to name a few.

When I was quite old to walk to the town of my mother would give me a quarter on Saturday. With this I could go see a movie and then get an ice cream soda to the pharmacy and buy a comic. When I needed it, she would give me another quarter to get a haircut. I do believe the cost of these items are a bit more these days. I paid twenty-three dollars for a trim beard and hair last Saturday. I'm getting used to what I think I cried a few minutes this time.

Another great pastime for boys was war games. The girls always found something they needed to go or something more important thing to do. There were a field of garden at the rear of the lot where it sometimes grandfathers planted corn, tomatoes and / or other vegetables. We were not allowed to play in the field until after the crops had been harvested. Once I OK had time, it was to collect as many boys as possible and choose sides. The field was full of clots of land the size of throwing good.

There were ditches on both ends of the field and the distance was about for boys from eight to twelve years to build. We used a bushel basket lids attached to our arms as shields and clots in the hand of art, operated, and stood by our side on the ground. We defended our respective gap required when the attack and went under over our own frontal attacks. If someone occasionally took a clot from the head than does the game more interesting because of the danger of being hurt.

When things are bored at home I would get my grandfather to let me help as Tag Along its route traffic. My grandfather was a man of vehicles and Hudson had always a van Hudson. He went on the farmer's market in Birmingham and the load on the vegetables and fruits that have been season and thought it might be more attractive for rural women on his route. It was a hard job and hot in summer, the Alabama Rural Roads unpaved – no air conditioning in those days.

All women and some men left their homes when grandfather blew his horn. They recognized that the sound and were happy for the convenience of door fruit and vegetables (and sometimes nuts). They were also pleased to have someone to talk for a few minutes of their time apart. My favorite part of the day on the road was when we stopped at a old country stores so I can get a chocolate bar or chips and is a large orange or grape soda or maybe a drink Orange Crush. I wonder if they are still few. My grandfather always stuck with his Buffalo Rock ginger ale and usually a moon pie.

As with everyone my childhood escaped from year to year, pushed by hormones, peer pressure, education, and parents. Since my childhood slipped away its activities have been rapidly replaced by other activities and interests such as football and girls. They will never be replaced by any thing, especially in the South.

Overall, I think the increased memory capacity is a long-term asset in the process aging. It is good to be able to remember very well the young and the people and places and even pets who helped form what you are today. Although it is good to reflect on and reminisce, I would not go back and relive those years.

They were not all good times and there is usually a lot of physical pain and mental anguish associated with childhood. I still do not have good memories of my Grandma take me out of the bushes in the backyard and break a switch. It would then use the switch to hit me several times on my bare legs for some bad behavior or failure that I did. Fifty years later and I still cringe at the memories. Yes, it was another world in the forties and fifties. I think I love my life now as well or better than a free-range child. One reason in particular jumps to mind immediately – air conditioning.

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About the Author

Mr Green has a B.S. Degree form Jacksonville State University (AL) and a J.D. Degree from The Birmingham School of Law. He served in the U.S. Army from 1967 through 1987, 5 years of which were on active duty serving in Vietnam and Germany for a total of 3 years. Retired as A Reserve Major in the Military Intellegence Branch. He has worked with NASA, Defense Contracts Administration Service and USAID. He Served outside the the United States as a Civilian for approximatly 8 years mostly in the Middle East. He also worked for the University of Alabama at Birmingham AL for approximately 1 year. He is now retired.

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