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In reply to the discussion: 42 years ago today: The gales of November came crashing [View all]shanny
(6,709 posts)To clarify: the company my father worked for. An insurance company--Northwestern Mutual Life--it was a good place to work back in the day. They made their money the old-fashioned way (they earned it), they treated their employees well (he worked there from the day he got out of grad school until he retired) before and after retirement (his pension came to almost 4000 a month--20 years after retirement; I happen to know he invested about 5000 during his employment toward it).
It still appalls me that he voted Republican (this after crowing about how he went to school for 8 years on the GI Bill; also after he voted for Kennedy over "that rat bastard Nixon" in 1960) but he never would have stood for this current crop of...deplorables / unmentionables / unpardonables. He died before GWB came on the scene.
The song, and the story, still haunts me...in part because it reminds me of a different time.