05-06-2017, 04:58 AM
(05-06-2017, 01:14 AM)GeekyCynic Wrote: Both of my Silent grandmothers ('28 and '34 cohorts) have been having health problems lately and I know my time with them may be limited. This and also the fact that most of the newspaper obituaries are Silent has hit home to me how their generation is now deep in old age and is slowly beginning to leave us (in spite of a few active Silent in public life like Bernie Sanders, Nancy Pelosi, John McCain, etc). Has anyone else had to deal with the decline or passing of aging Silent family members? What do you think will be the ultimate legacy of a generation that has often been overlooked by historians?
Grandmother on the sperm donor's side of the family and the only one of them that will have anything to do with me or my brother. Odd for a fifty-one year old to still have a grandmother left but my life has been a long set of rather unusual circumstances. Ironically, she outlived a much younger Silent stepfather.
Sadly she is showing signs of cognitive decline but that often happens when you are eighty-nine.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises