Manfred MoRSNER / MOERSNER:
CLASS OF 1969
Oakcrest High SchoolClass of 1969
Mays landing, NJ
Manfred's Story
ENTERING anyting in my guestbook is useless since I'm not able to reply or even just read it, why, well read the story below.
LIFE
Never would have thought that the year at Oakcrest would influence my life so deep. Started there with that IBM 1130 computer and made computering to my lifetime profession. So I am still working at the Bundessortenamt in Germany. Besides that I like doing anchestry research through this phantastic medium of internet. Thanks to the experience at Oakcrest I am able to help many americans to find their roots. That keeps connecting to a place that I enjoyed so much.
HOW THINGS CHANGED
Well, above was written about 7 years ago, nothing has changed besides the fact that this web site is filled meanwhile with too much needless advertisings as it leaves a wrong impression about peoples interest, or are Americans this way today ? Never noticed it then when I was there! Sorry to say, but girls, girls, girls, all around the borderline I wouldn't expect on such a web site.
That 7 years ago I joined for 10$ with 1 year gold membership, only a handful where registerd then. Meanwhile really a lot are registerd, but price for membership has increased a real lot too. Problem today is to get registerd is: only things like credit cards are accepted (7 years ago I could send those 10$ trustful in an envelope, that shows the drastic change too). Money, money, well, that is of course how I got to know America :-) .
Classmates interested will find me therefore only by searching for contact, for exampel at genforum in the german prussia section, search for my last name there or use something like google. It's interesting, astonishing and amazing what efforts most american anchestors would often take to leave the old world, meanwhile I ask myself if they still would be s...Expand for more
atisfied. if they could see now how this contry changed, was that really worth it? It's 2008 and in Europe we now have first consequences for the american way of life, money as credit, so some earn without working for it. I wonder where the moral has gone from which I was so impressed when visiting sunday school in Pleasantville. If everyone gets tought already starting in baby age that one can turn from a dish washer into a millionary, if one is just better than the others, that simply will never work. Well, look behind the mirror. This equation means that all others have to be worse than myself and if they are not I do everything to push them on that place.
The economic situation at the moment shows brilliantly where this attitude starts its showdown. For germany it means right now that for decades about 150 billion dollars will have to be payd back from future generations ( and more for each bank which will run into illiquidity ) To give you an idea how worse this is, In 2010 germany as a country was supposed to be finally finished by paying back 10 billion of its government debt. As said above, showdown has just started and there really are much more important things where all this money should have gone to, like earth invoronment, support of poor countries so peace will finally expand on this planet, medical research and so on. So it is no question for me, showdown on the environtment part will be much worse then prognosed by scientists.
Anyway, I know there still are a lot of good once and there is always hope that they realize their strength, speak loud and don't redraw in a silent corner, which is only possible in such a huge country as america. The election just showed there is still much possible, use it for good and not for testing the next borderline of world economics.
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