if you could travel back in time to the late 30's, would you?

[the4ork]

if you could travel back in time to the late 30's, would you go?

i say late 30's as it would give you time to enlist and get trained up for war.


i most certainly would, it was a better time back then, and i already have about 10 hours in a stearman, 5.5 in a Texan, and a tailwheel endorsement... i'd smoke the flying and oral sections of any pilot test they could throw at me!

question is, do i learn german and fly for the luftwaffe, go to the eagle squadron and fly for the limeyes, or sweat it out until the yanks enter the war... and then navy or air corps?

I think i'd stick it out with the yanks, however between navy and air corps, i guess i would take whichever one would take me....

what would you do?

[Kuhn]

Buy stock in Lockheed.     

[Flench]

30's No 60's YES !

[Bear76]

Fly for the Russians, drink Vodka, make love to homely women named Olga and die young  

[jdbecks]

buy lots of property's in Mayfair and parklane

[Steve]

if you could travel back in time to the late 30's, would you go?

i say late 30's as it would give you time to enlist and get trained up for war.


i most certainly would, it was a better time back then, and i already have about 10 hours in a stearman, 5.5 in a Texan, and a tailwheel endorsement... i'd smoke the flying and oral sections of any pilot test they could throw at me!

question is, do i learn german and fly for the luftwaffe, go to the eagle squadron and fly for the limeyes, or sweat it out until the yanks enter the war... and then navy or air corps?

I think i'd stick it out with the yanks, however between navy and air corps, i guess i would take whichever one would take me....

what would you do?

I'd go up in the northwoods, fisihing.  I already know we win and I bet the fishing in those lakes was awesome!

[uptown]

Don't do that again.

[MickDono]

30's No 60's YES !

+1 

[LCCajun]

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[thndregg]

I don't know about going back to the 30's. My values do seem out of place with what people consider important these days- and I'm only 37. I could easily adapt to late 40's I think. I work, I help take care of my family, farmland, etc.. Everything is paid for! I'm not in debt- old values.

[vafiii]

I'd go back to late 40's, early 50's after the war. Seems like a great time to be an American. Also wouldn't mind checking out the Roman Empire, the American Revolution and the Old West.

[TheRapier]

I think its a nice fantasy, but if you were raised from 1970 onward, I think you'd be a fish out of water. The cultural attitudes have taken such a radical shift since then that it would be bewildering.

Most folks in any country, were frankly and openly racist, and it wasn't even looked upon as something unusual. What we today call hate crimes were relatively commonplace. The concepts of what constituted masculinity or femininity and acceptable behavior by our current contexts were very rigid. For anyone who was alive in the 60s, this attitudes were exactly what the revolution of the 60s was against.

Then as now, when you live in an era, you can't pick and choose the good parts. You get it all, just the way it is, without the patina of nostalgia.

[oakranger]

Most definitely, take all my knowledge of range ecology with me and put it into good uses.

[Max]

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[Spikes]

Stop Hitler's madness before it happened.