NTT Past and Present

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized
I hope you like this image, it’s from years gone by.
When kids could play in the streets
and time came easy by.
The sign says 1940, I was a born a few after,
And as a child my life was full of laughter.
My early youth was dreamlike
but nightmares did come later.
Between wars I was born,
too young to notice men forlorn
as more conflict newly worn.
Today this photo is the ideal,
a warm presence and lesser fears.
Only idyllic for some and then all disappeared.
Progress came on many fronts,
women and civil rights were fought…
Finally some equalness to celebrate
then rich and powerful changed our fate.
Today the year is 2024,
we should have freedoms…more
and yet it seems we’re taken back
to times when freedoms were in lack.
I hope the laws put in place
by even-hearted way back in that race
Will stand and we can call ourselves
The human race.

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Thanks again Kevin, many ideas from your images this week!

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5 thoughts on “NTT Past and Present”

  1. I love this picture I really wanted to use this one. Beautifully said. I think of what we lost and gained… then thinking like that brings me back to pristine lands before roads or telephone lines. Which dinosaur did what – where I am standing? 🙂 Ha! Thanks for sharing this. ❤

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