One thing that will never end is change. All throughout time change has endured, and has shaped the world into what it is today. It is a special thing to be able to capture these changes, and understand more why it is that they occurred. I was able to interview my neighbor, Robert Yates, and ask him about major events, during his time, that molded his life and the world into what we know now.
The first event that Mr. Yates seemed to focus on in the beginning was the depression. He was born in 1920, and was nine years old when the depression began. “My family lived in the Nebraska, and the weather was acting up, when the stock market crashed, no one expected it.” Mr. Yates father was a farmer, and was su
These three events impacted many people that lived during that time, and will ever affect the molding of our world. He said that his life was very memorable, and that he wouldn’t trade it for anything. I asked him what he thought about the 21st century, and if it is better than the last. He said,” Well, it sure used to be a hell of a lot quieter without all these cell phones!”
After that, he went to directly talking about World War II. He was not eligible to go to war, because he had been paralyzed from the waist down after a tragic accident when he was 15. “My brother, Jacob, went to Tokyo with orders to construct warehouses, hospitals, and roads on the various island bases recaptured from the Japanese.” He said that he was very a
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