Happy Repeal day...
Dec. 5th, 2008 11:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helen99The 18th amendment (prohibition) was signed into law on January 16, 1919. On December 5, 1933, it was repealed.
So... happy Repeal day. Even if you choose not to drink, the fact that there is a choice at all (about anything) can never be taken for granted and is cause for celebration.
I just had an odd realization -- my dad was born the year prohibition became law. He missed the whole thing, though - he grew up in Greece where prohibition would have been viewed as a ridiculous notion. By the time he got here (1935) and was of 'legal drinking age,' prohibition had been repealed for two years. My mom mentioned prohibition occasionally. She would have been 21 when it was repealed, so all her growing up years took place during prohibition. Children were to be seen and not heard, and any reading or artwork had to be done in secret. What a very different world...
So... happy Repeal day. Even if you choose not to drink, the fact that there is a choice at all (about anything) can never be taken for granted and is cause for celebration.
I just had an odd realization -- my dad was born the year prohibition became law. He missed the whole thing, though - he grew up in Greece where prohibition would have been viewed as a ridiculous notion. By the time he got here (1935) and was of 'legal drinking age,' prohibition had been repealed for two years. My mom mentioned prohibition occasionally. She would have been 21 when it was repealed, so all her growing up years took place during prohibition. Children were to be seen and not heard, and any reading or artwork had to be done in secret. What a very different world...