From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 4 20: 0:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.atl.bellsouth.net (mail2.atl.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B66914E09 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 20:00:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wghicks@bellsouth.net) Received: from wghicks.bellsouth.net (host-209-214-70-224.atl.bellsouth.net [209.214.70.224]) by mail2.atl.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA04449; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 23:00:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wghicks (wghicks@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wghicks.bellsouth.net (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA00502; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 23:04:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net) Message-Id: <199907050304.XAA00502@bellsouth.net> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to start to be a hacker? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 04 Jul 1999 11:52:15 CDT." <19990704115215.B220@whizkidtech.net> Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 23:04:01 -0400 From: W Gerald Hicks Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wes Peters wrote: [snips] > We spent 1970 at Fort Benning, Ga. We went to the commissary every Thursday, > and watched the fleet of chaplains cars coming and going, doing next of kin > notification. That (and the space program) are what the sixties mean to me. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That was the big one for me, specifically the Apollo program. To me it's a shame that todays children don't seem to have anything to compare with the heroes we had pitching for science. Growing up in Mississippi during the sixties meant a few other things to me too. Although the repression we experienced under the racist state government certainly does not compare to that in Czechoslavakia of 1968, it did further motivate me to pursue science and technology if just to escape the ignorance that prevailed there. I wouldn't trade my experiences of that period, but I certainly would not want to turn the clock back either. Cheers, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message