What a wonderful thread! My two passions all in one.... pets and old folks!

We call (very affectionately) little old ladies "LOLLIES"... get it? LOL/Lollies!!!!

Anyway....

Many of you know that I work at our local Council on Aging, and could I ever tell you some stories! May is Older Americans Month, and we have our Mayor read a proclamation every year, and last year for the first year, we had a luncheon and we honored Margaret Ringenberg. Some of you may know of her... she was a WWII pilot!!!!!! And at the age of 85 (I think), she still flies in airplane races! She has written a book, and she was in a book written by Tom Brokaw about America! Very sweet lady! She was the pilot who flew the airplane over Fort Wayne to announce (by dropping leaflets) that WWII had ended!

While I was talking to a church group one day, talking about the services that we offer, I met a woman who was in the Navy and was stationed at Pearl Harbor when it was bombed!!!!!!!! Can you imagine?!

Anyway, I wanted to say one more thing about seniors. PLEASE, if you are fortunate enought to still have parents and/or grandparents around, get their story from them. Learn about their childhood, ask about their parents, find out why they have made the decisions in their lives that they have. Get it on tape, or record it on camera.... and keep it! This is your legacy, and you need to get it now before it is too late. We try to encourage people to do this, because, as has been said on this thread already... every senior has a story!

Sorry this is so long....seniors are very near and dear to my heart!