Seeing old timers.....


choking up over loved ones who died decades before due to the lung illness, and having to dispose of livestock the way their parents did, was absolutely heartbreaking to me. I wanted to jump into the tv and hug every one of them. I cried several times watching this. Fascinating documentary.

"Well, make something up!"/RG

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I felt exactly the same way, incredible people with tremendous resilience but the effect of those years, the hardships, obviously it made them very different people from that time onwards. This documentary, most of all to me, shows the unbelievable strength of the human race and what we can deal with if we are put in unreal, horrible situations.

Everyone gets everything he wants.

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The whole series was like looking through the family photo albums and shoe boxes of old photos at my Grandparent's house. With both sides of my Mom's family being from around the OK & TX Panhandles during that time, I heard these stories and saw these photos from as far back as I can remember. This documentary was like looking at better quality versions of those family photos.

My Aunt still remembers many of the people who were interviewed during the documentary. My Mom (now 82) is suffering from a lifetime of multiple sensitivity disorder and chronic bouts of asthma and bronchitis. None of us had ever heard of dust fever until it was mentioned in the documentary.

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