i was an officer ar oakland army terminal in late 1967 was a general by proxy to overseel some 35000 men a month going over then ted bell came through even some from grade school. sorry about the damper on the our school dialogue. however i,writing a book about the 196os so the whole book is controversial . so what can i talk about wthout beiong trite an superfical.. or is it oaky for our generation be seen by our kid grandkids as apathic and smug. look i,v read this website some 50ten years now is seem only 10% our our oriiginal 565 students ever seem to read our website let alone write in. sad that many death notices get zero responses. so sad because out classes( 1962- 1967 and those years were so critical  in forming what america is today. BOth to our own praise but to our own fault. what was that phrase, the afflunt, efflent  out kid,our grandkids among the homeless. i,ve visited at least 10 other school websites across the country phoenix, selma new york, atanta. st louis. lets not pass he buck  this is largely what superfical values, have let us to. where 3 divorces is normal where down town seattle look like  more and for like india. and india isbegining to look like america..all ccountry go through cycles from youth to mid age to old age but not this soon.  i visited vet nam recently and its embarrasing how well is doing now liile crime homeless. a succesfull capitalistic country. on the list of happy countys we are below india.  sad we have so much potiental   synergy but  i guess will just vegetate away and pass our  weakness on the next generation.

Interesting topic title lead-in to some very good observation points, Sterling. Let the [spititual] dead bury the dead. I think that is a paraphrased quote from Jesus... The reason I don't post a comment about every death is that out of 565 people I did not personally know or socialize with more than 100 of them while attending HHS. Many folks that i hung out with during high school were older than me or attended other high schools in the Highline School District.

I tried to serve my local community on a regional/county Health and Human Services Council, but Washington State has closed mental health services down. Democrats have provided homeless people (some who are preditors in their own drug dependent community shelters) with Constitutional lawyers from out of state that defend irresponsibile and public safety risk members from being prosecuted for their crimes against the general public. The homeless create areas of crime and unsanitary conditions (human defication, used needles, excessive trash, etc.) The contracted, psychologist "grifters" that control the homeless population services take over the local government councils to insure their state-funded grants, based on headcount of patients and not results, are protected. Judges do not inforce laws or public health codes and our police are forced to catch and release offenders without support from the commnity. The public safety issues are frustrating because we have stopped the enforcement of public Codes( laws that keep society safe and clean.) Ecology rules do not apply to the homeless and their preditors that follow them from city to city or from county to county. Yes, the general public has their head in the sand about this issue (or somewhere else) and does not want to know how to solve the issue. Other countries have decided to not encourage or enable  the rich/poor social divide and enforce local codes that keep society under law and order. They also support core family health and respect through law and order, not chaos and war, thus they have a lower divorce rate through reduced social lawfare. [I apologize for the poor senctence structure in my first response...] I hope you find Ted Bell.