Category: Gerald Jacobs

In My Lifetime

The Craziness In Our World We were having a gathering of friends last Wednesday. The younger members were asking why there was so much craziness in our world. For them, it had never been like that before. It got me to thinking. Briefly, here’s what happened in my lifetime. When I was born, WWII had […]

Electronic Evolution

I was born three years after the first atomic bomb was detonated in Japan. We had no TV, no on demand anything. The electronic evolution had yet to begin. To see a movie, you had to drive to a theater, roll down all your windows, put a speaker in your car, or park and go […]

I Grew Up In The Army

I Am Sometimes Asked Where I Was Born It used to be a long drawn out explanation. No more. I tell all I was born in the Army. That’s true enough. I never lived in the exact place I was born. We were moving from one place to another when I came into being. I […]