Really want to know

I am 41, and in middle school had a vet from the Bataan Death March and another who was in Burma talk to me, and a few others at a small table. The rest of the middle school was split up similarly in the gym in small groups with other vets.

The Burma guy was black and upset the white spldiers in the fox holes insisted he jump on them when they were getting mortared, to be used as a shield. He went his own way.

If you have a tale to tell, put it someplace. If you can make it interesting enough it may end up published, and if it makes the rounds of popularity, you may indeed be called by some schools and universities to verbally retell it.

Your story might be interesting. Why don't you try writing a couple pages about an interesting event and post them here. Tag me, I'll take a look, and let you know what I think.

I think from a personal interest perspective, learning how someone 4 generations older than a younger person grew up in the 1960's and `70's as you're advocating, would be fun stuff to talk about around a campfire, but would yield little relevance to what's going on today that younger people have to deal with which you never did have to deal with.

That's not to say that your generation has nothing to offer today's youth, but it is to say that if today's youth followed it, they would be recreating the past, not inventing the future. The objective in life is to advance forward in lockstep with advancing experiences, not reach back to yesterday to keep doing the same thing over again the same way it was done 60 years ago.