Via Pianomomsicle:

1. Of television programs that aired before you were born, what’s your favorite? “Victory at Sea”, the NBC miniseries on World War Two.
   
2. What person of historical significance was from your neighborhood or city? Colonel William Dupuy was on General MacArthur’s staff, and was with him on the deck of the USS Missouri when Japan surrendered.  MacArthur gave the colonel the ceremonial flag that the Japanese emissary handed over.  I found it in my city’s museum when I volunteered there, back when I was 12 or 13.  All the old ladies and my family said “oh, that’s nice, Mitch.  Take out the garbage, please”.  Then, about ten years ago, it was on the front page of the Jamestown Sun; a HUGE DISCOVERY!  The VERY FLAG that the Japanese had handed over on the Missouri!  Anyway; other than Louis LaMoure, Peggy Lee, Shadoe Stevens and Darin Erstad, that’s about it.
   
3. What’s a story that’s often been told about someone in your family in the years before you came along? My family wasn’t big on stories.  I have very little idea about my parents before I was born.  Maybe this story here counts.
4. Which of previous generations’ dumb mistakes (in deed or thought) baffles you the most? Slavery?
5. What aspect of life in the good old days would you love to see a return to? I think schools should be able, in cases of gross misbehavior, to paddle the crap out of kids.

That’s a start.