Huh? What's Up With That?

  it is an investment...                   I hear quite often how POS (People Over Sixty) want to travel during retirement years. However, I am just as likely to be told by any one of my small sample of interviewees he or she doesn't have travel plans or harbor any desire to leave the city.     It seems there are as many different thoughts about the post retirement years and how to spend leisure time as there are people.  Sadly, I even had one man say, I just want to get to the end of it , when asked if he had a Bucket List .      Jamie Farr of MASH  television   fame told me in an interview he wanted to cook Lebanese specialties when he retired.  He said his mother taught him how to prepare his favorite dishes.    Richard Egan, an actor who appeared with Elvis Presley in the movie,  Love Me Tender,  said he was going to travel the world now in case he didn't make it...

  welcome home...                                                                                 Most American, Korean War veterans, returned to their homeland and went back to work or school without any kind of welcome or celebration.  It was not the same as previous wars.     HUH ?  What's up with that ?      Unlike WWII when almost all Americans were working toward a unified goal, there was only a small portion of the country invested in the Korean War.  People had a different mindset because they had other things going on in their lives.     According to Historychannel.com,   Korean War soldiers returned home to a population that was largely disinterested in the war effort.   When I came back from Korea, there ...