Many years ago, in Dayton, Ohio, I walked about six blocks to Emerson Junior High School, I walked seven or eight blocks to downtown Dayton to go to the old Ohio theater and watch cowboy movies on Saturdays, and on Halloween, walked many blocks around where we lived and got all sorts of goodies. No dentist offered to buy them, we ate them. One house gave out pennies and we thought they were the richest people in the world.
I used to walk to the old fairgrounds Colosseum on Sundays and watched all sorts of basketball games.
What has changed in this country that makes walking to school so dangerous. Children get kidnapped and killed. Locally, parents were advised to have their children walk in groups, or better yet, take them to school. Where do we put the blame for all of this? Do we just hear more about it sooner, because of our TV sets. We watch crimes as they are happening. Remember OJ and his car chase? Now we even get live shots of wars and riots in process.
Something has caused some people to get "off track."
I guess it all started when we quit sitting on our front porches, and had no idea who our neighbors were, we used to "look out" for each other, we don't do that any more, best not to get "involved." Maybe it had something to do with no longer "cranking" the old ice cream maker, electricity took over. We are part of a generation who is spending 6 billion dollars to win political offices. Are we great, or what?
