An Email From My Young'un.

When my son was in the second grade, I remember that he wrote s story. I thought it was great, but when I told him so, he said, “You’re just saying that because I’m your kid.”

I then proceeded to show him how the story grabbed my attention and came to a fantastic climax – just as any well-written story should do. I told him that I did understand that a second grader wrote it -- but despite that, it was still a great story.

My son has always had a way with words. He reads a wide variety of things – he read the Communist Manifesto when he was in middle school – so he could know who the enemy was.

This week I received an email from my son. I could not help but think as I read it that I must have done OK as a father.

As a side note, “Pop” has never been a phrase used in my family. But when my son calls me “Pop,” I take it with pride.

With his permission, enjoy his email:

Hey pop,
This came up in a thread about the cold war/air power.
http://www.life.com/gallery/41912/one-ride-with-yankee-papa-13#index/0
One ride with Yankee papa 13, 1965.
Classic B&W action shots, some are quite emotional.

My job has me working from sun up till sun down these days, but I'm happy to have it. I don’t understand these people my age with the victim mentality.
Occupy wall street, despite they’re fooling themselves with a lack of knowledge of history, are essentially a Marxist movement. People's councils are their prototype for a new system.

I'm waiting to see if this ignites with a spark or fizzles like a dud.

I posted a polite view from my point in a huge OWS echo chamber thread on the political part of my major forum.
Someone from OWS had asked why a movement friendly garbage truck driver hadn’t just come down and helped dispose of the waste.
I replied:
Because the truck is company property, using company fuel, and the waste must be disposed of properly, which costs a fee.
The garbage truck driver doesn’t own the means of garbage disposal.

I also told them to assert the working class identity while being college loan recipients was unappreciated by one who's collar is blue and didn’t go to college.
(A NATEF program for ASE technical training isn’t the same, generally speaking)

They're probably still circle jerking about how wrong I am. I wont go back.


I don’t think politics is good for my blood pressure.

Now if that does not give you hope for the future, then nothing will.