Today I turn 70.

[William Gustafson]

108. I turned 70 last March...

I agree with your sediments to the change we experienced.
From growing up on a small horse farm, where we got our first tv... Black and white monster that could heat the entire room from the vacuum tubes and picture tube heat.... there was the evolution of the TV's to now flat screens, we got to witness.
Our home was a few miles from my hometown, so as I grew older, I would hitchhike into town to hang with my friends, and had to be back home before the sun went down... We never worried that anyone would kidnap us, because most people were happy to give me a lift...
We had great music, great cars, great friends and great family's.... There wasn't one weekend a month where the family would get together, with Aunts and Uncles and all our cousins. We were close back then....
We, too... had a party line, but when my father worked for Bell Telelphone, we got a private line because he was on call all the time.... with five teenagers, the phone was always used. We had to remember our friends phone numbers by heart because phonebooks were scarce until the 60's.
In order to find our friends, we looked for bikes in front yards, and then later, look for cars in the driveways... there was always a lot of them either way.
Vietnam affected me because my oldest brother went there... thankfully, he came back. We worried everyday he was there. The protest on the TV... Kent State shootings by National Guard... I enlisted in 1974 into the USCG, one year before the war ended, and luckily, my draft number came up, but I was already signed up with the Guard... spent five years in the guard.
A lot of things have changed, and I have been able to keep up, but this last 8 years, what I have witnessed going on, and now with this administration doing everything they can to destroy what millions of people before us, created. It's astounding to watch everyday people believe that this group of Administration officials are actually making "Make America Great Again".
We lost Allys we have had for 80 years, turn our backs on the people that are being bombed by Russia, Destroying the economy and any retirement that people saved for - gone! Destroy the government, including 80,000 getting fired for the VA... It's all been done in just 90+ days...
I hope I get to live to see the end of all of this, so I can see the justice that will be required and "Build Back Better"