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> A child born in the 80s is lucky to still have living parents today Wut?! Born in 1966 here, still have living parents. Ditto for my wife. Where do you live

• watwut 4y ago
  > And where grandparents shun their grandkiddies? Grandparents who went through wars dont talk much about ugly details of those with their small grandchildren. Instead, they try to protect kids from those. If they talk about those, they wait till kids are adult and even then they talk about it only if it is relevant to something. In addition, generations that went through wars seem to generally not to talk about it much with others. That seems fairly universal - ex-solders tend to feel that non-soldiers dont understand their experience. They have hard time to put experience into words that non-soldiers do understand. > Born in 1966 here, still have living parents. That is cool. My dad is death and I am younger. Not everyone lives till 80.
• tremon 4y ago
  To counter your anecdata with mine: Born in 1982, lost the last remaining grandparent when I was 12. Lost my father five years ago, luckily my mother is still in good health.