The Story of Ken Sandhop

I have touched on everything I can think of that happened in the last seventy-four years. Some good some bad but it has been an interesting time and I know that the next seventy-five years will see a lot more things happen than I can visualize. The first twenty-five years was pretty slow, and now the pace has quickened. The second twenty-five years was faster and now things happen so fast it’s hard to keep up. When I was in the sixth grade they demonstrated TV in school, very crude, now we get pictures from around the world as the news happens. We went from horse and buggies to space ships in this time and put a man on the moon twenty-five years ago. That reminds me on TV they say for years people though that the moon was made of cheese. When they landed they found that it was made of rock and no one has gone back since. I have one boy who works on airplanes so big that the Ford Tri-Motor plane I rode in can hide under a B-52’s wing. One is a schoolteacher, one prints designs on clothes. One sells plastic and one makes electronic games. All of this evolved since I was a little boy and most has occurred in the last twenty-five years. Such a leap from the time my grandparents came to this country. I love you and all my kids and are proud of you all. I just hope that I did a passable job of being a dad.

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