The Book of Me, Written By You

The Book Of Me: Prompt 12 –The Year You Were Born

                   I was born in the decade of the sixties.

                                       

My life started with my mother in the Naval Hospital. She was alone at the hospital dealing with preeclampsia. My father was station a couple of hours away. My mother’s mother was across the nation. So my brave young mother was having her first child and she did well, a healthy seven pound baby girl.

                                                             

             I wore cotton diapers with pins before Pampers (Disposable diapers) became the norm.

I was a Brownie in the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.

                                                   The Girl Scout Law is:

I will do my best to be, Honest and fair, Friendly and helpful, considerate and caring, Couragous and strong, Responsible for what I say and do, And to respect myself and others, Respect authority, Use resources wisely, Make the world a better place, And be sister to every Girl Scout.

                                                                

My favorite Barbie doll was her friend Stacey. I will continue to search for her at my father’s home when I go visit him. He has several storage buildings filled with stuff.

                                                                                       

                                                       

                                                  My childhood crush was Elvis Presley

                                                       

         Motown Music

I was fortunate to have two parents that loved music, they listen to the Beatles, Johnny Cash, Sam Cooke, Temptations, Fifth Dimensions and Glen Campbell, to name a few.

                                                       

The television was an invited family member, it made us happy and sad. It made us laugh on Saturday morning and be scared on Saturday night. We loved the reruns of the 1940’s and 1950’s shows.

 

Charlie Chan is a fictional Chinese-American detective.    Ma and Pa Kettle with their 15 children.               

 

           

    

Movies

Events

I was laying on the couch with my mother who was watching President Kennedy and First Lady Jackie Kennedy in Dallas on T.V. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Friday, November 22 , 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Dallas police officer, J. D. Tippit called Lee Harvey Oswald over to the patrol car.  Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed Dallas police officer, J. D. Tippit. Oswald enters a nearby movie theater without buying a ticket. Oswald is arrested by police officer, M.N. McDonald.Oswald is charged later that evening with the murder of President John F. Kennedy and Officer J. D. Tippit.  Jack Ruby murders John F. Kennedy’s suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. During the transportation of Oswald from Dallas Police Headquarters to the Dallas County Jail on November 24, 1963 live on television.

 

Civil Rights Movement

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