21st Century Kids

pstrong pbAs voiced in a Popularbr / cartoon. Sept.11, 2001.br //b/p pSuicide Bombersbr / highjacking Americanbr / Commerical planes. /p pGave both 20th Cenury Adultsbr / and 21st Cenury Children.br //p pb"A SHOCK TO THEIR SYSTEM."/b/p/strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Joe B./p p21st Century kids got it rough!br / "I ain't no goat, grup." See what I mean, born in the mid to late 1980's going through grade and highschool hell, guns, drugs, drive by'sbr / b[hearing or being shot from moving cars, motorcycles, skateboards even]/b and just when things cannot get anyworse BOOOOOM-September 11, 2001's New York's World Trade Center's Twin Towers get rammed into and falls in a hellish consuming fire leaving black, gray, smoke and thousands of dead in the rubble./p pTheir parent's are tramatized many being closer to them than they ever could imagine./p pTheir older brother's, sister's, friends joining the military or being called to active duty - already some have died in accidents, or from enemy fire lands people didn't have a clue about until... That Day!/p pMan, its' 'Freakin hard to be a Twenty First Century Child./p pBut these youngsters have something that other generations didn't have perspective and history of every conflict across the planet, the internet, revised his/hersory books, real documentary footage of those wars as they were fought and generations behind them, who can tell them the truth of those past conflicts./p pI believe these 21C's though traumatized now will come out the other end stronger, smarter, more compassionate, stable, and unfortunately know that they are mortal and that real immortality is coming and ending war before its apon them may be what sets them apart from the generations before them.br //p pThe World War1- 1914-1918 'Gens known as the lost generation because so young, "The Cream" or best were killed, maimed, psychologically crippled it took a long time to recover especially from Great Britain, Germany, France, Australia, and Russia.br / /p pThen World War11 1938-1945 where our grand mother's, fathers, grandfathers, older friends, siblings fought, died, were wounded, and survived.br / /p pIn 1946-1964 "The Baby Boom" Generation was born./p pKorea in 1950 is called "A police action" yet Communist Chinese and American soldier's in uniform died in this conlict; sounds awfully like a war to me.br //p p Then Viet Nam Conflict, and Israel's "Three Day War" in 1967. /p pNotice that a battle lasting less than a week is considered at war. /p p Desert Storm/Shield in 1991./p pI'm sure many facts were wrong, errors in dates, times, history./p pSo study them, ask your parents, grandparent, older siblings, or friends or a group of your best buds, home girls, 'bro's - 'sista's as something to do apart from school, study hall, video games, tv, radio, cd/dvd listening, drug or conventional 'part-ay-ing down./p pThis is the best and worst of time 'youngins-learn from it. /p pWho is this goof on-line? If you are still reading then I've made some sense; oh, I'm just joe-I don't a lot of things but learning about things seems to be my knack. /p pThough I'm rotten at math which is one thing I like to learn. /p pYou see to know Chemistry you must know some math. That's my bane of existance - not knowing enough math to learn chemistry which my personal long term goal./p pAny of you geniuses or adverage brained youngsters know any ways of ridding one's self of Math Phobia? I'd really like to know./p pIts the only way I know to become a 21C Alchemist already missed being a 20C one. Oh well better late than never. Bye./p pPlease donate what can to br /Poor Magazine orbr /C/0 Ask /ppJoe at 255 9th St.br / br /Street, San Francisco, CA. 94103 USA/p pFor Joe only my snailbr / br /mail:PO Box 1230 #645br / br /Market St.San Francisco, /ppCA 94102br /Email:askjoe@poormagazine. org./p p/p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p