A friend of mine once said (and I agree with him) that there is a distinct line drawn across the society of the United States between those who remember and those who do not remember the Great Depression. Perhaps more than any other event in the lives of those let living, that great economic hole molded the characters and the thinking of an entire generation of people - and had a profound effect even further along than that.
Those who remember the Depression are now in their 80's, and the number of them still thinking clearly is diminishing at a rapid pace. To learn what they learned would be a tremendous benefit to us, and our window of opportunity is fast closing. If you know one of them, I counsel you to talk to him and "pick his brain" while you can.
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