• Psythik@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    That’s a pretty heavy topic for a first grade teacher. Meanwhile I wasn’t taught about WWII until freshman year of high school.

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      2 days ago

      GenX has had WW3 hanging over our heads since we could walk. There was a brief respite during the 90s, but that’s over now.

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        1 day ago

        As a millennial, born too late for duck-and-cover…born too early for shelter-in-place.

      • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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        I was talking to someone the other day about the freedom that was felt in the music and movies of the time due, in my opinion, to the constantly hovering cold war end-of-the-world.