GENERATION PTSD

Joshua Todd James
8 min readJul 14, 2020

Generation PTSD: a tragic story. From my twitter thread.

My mother used to tell me that her dad, when she was young, never took them to restaurants, even when traveling, not even fast food… they’d stop at a store, buy bread, meat, and eat plain sandwiches. Never fast food.

They weren’t poor, so why?

Because my grandfather came of age during the Great Depression & never, ever wasted…

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