I was a child of the Great Depression; in high school during World War II; raised five kids, economically comfortable, with only me working; wife stayed home until youngest was eleven, when she went to work as a medical transcriptionist, changing doctors' gibberish to sound like Shakespeare.

There was a feeling of union, of love and help thy neighbor spread across the land. Together we could face and handle any situation

The rich were taxed heavily, still maintaining their 'richness.'

We were relaxed, we attended parades, we played and danced to ballads rather than rock and roll

The combination of Reagan's tax cuts, unleashing today's greed (I can be richer than you can be) and feeding the working class's stagnant wages; computers, the internet with its many toys that virtually guarantee occupation with one's teenage self with respect to family and society, regardless of the ability to "sosialize', reaching out with texting.

I find it hard to believe my eyes in a restaurant watching four ex- teenagers at a table, eyes not looking at each other in conversation, but intent on their own texting conversation with someone else not even there.

9-11 united us, the Iraq war divided us, as have all wars since the Korean conflict. Economic hard times, poverty touching not enough to call us all to eliminate it, has further divided us.

The stress of every day living; student debt, our diet that makes us sick; doctors treating symptoms rather than causes so that pharmaceutical companies can continue their pillaging. From morning 'til night there's no time to remember history.

Mitch McConnell started the political division when he pledged to stop anything Obama wanted to do. His control of the Senate makes him the perfect handmaiden to Trump.

Gutless politicians on both sides, one refusing to criticize their leader; the other refusing to impeach him.

Music is our history these days. It easier, for most, to play a recording from the past than to read a book or attend a lecture.

Your point is well made, EEE.