What kind of good thoughts and memories bring nostalgia to your mind at this happy time of the year?

74 was a very good year for me. I was in college and loving every minute of it. I lucked out and got a part time job (it was posted on the school's jobs bulletin board) at GM Monday and Friday nights.

Perfect, it paid a whopping $4.62 an hour. For comparison, my other part time job paid $1.18 an hour. That was enough to move out with a roommate and be on my own.

I still had to be frugal, but it did not seem hard. I had a $400 '65 Mustang that ran pretty good and could do most of the basic maintenance. We would eat at a couple of places that only charged a buck like the Wesley Foundation near campus.

Back then, the legal drinking age was 19 in my state so I went to the local hangouts (dives by today's standards) near school. We would hang out now and then, play darts(free) and drink the 50 cent beers. School was hard, (engineering) lots of homework, labs, and so forth.

Tuesday morning classes (at 8am) were hell after working till about 2 am. But I loved every minute of it. I saved enough to go to backpacking in Europe that summer with a girlfriend.

Stayed in hostels for $1 per night. Had a pretty good little adventure. I was not totally oblivious to current events, like the war, Nixon's resignation, and such.

Had a few high school friends that died over there, which was terrible and such a waste. That summer I was removed from all that till we saw the 5 inch headline "Nixon resigns!" in the Paris train station. We bought an English paper to read the details.

So yes, I have a bit of nostalgia. It was a good time for me. All things still seemed possible.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.