Joe Hanlon:  

Well I had lots of potential and everybody in my family had really high hopes for my lifes journey and they all knew I could become a great great and very valuable member of society.....which makes my story all the more disappointing and it's one that echoes across the specific spectrum and sociatal class of which we, us,our tweener class, not quite classified Baby Boomer's and just shy of the beautiful Flower Children of the Hippie Generation. I have great admiration for each respective generation and the only label I can say our generation can lay claim to would be.....directionless internal self centralisimportmore gratification at any cost with no moral sense and even less common sense when achieving parenthood status. We failed our kids in mass and thats what we did and were good at. Communication, thoughtfulness, charitable qualities, manners and hard work incompassed the very rarest of our ilk. Drugs and selfish acts of skulduggery where levels generaly achieved by those of us that could be called successful and winners if measured againgst such as I. Whoa is me for the life I let whither when at one time the fut...Expand for more