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Getting beyond 鈥榯hose millennials!鈥� and 鈥極K Boomer鈥�
Amelia Newcomb
Our five stories today look at a presidential campaign that could be more about the past than the future, a newly minted Hong Kong politician, one city鈥檚 bid to engage people positively around climate-friendly behavior and another city鈥檚 bid to appoint a 鈥�night mayor,鈥� and what鈥檚 spurring the ire over the movie 鈥�Richard Jewell.鈥�
There鈥檚 been a lot of intergenerational sparring in the public square of late, especially between millennials and boomers. Maybe that鈥檚 why a week in which a lot of intergenerational harmony was on display was heartening.
Take 93-year-old of Georges Township, Pennsylvania. He teamed up with state troopers about half his age to deliver his 300 handmade toys to children about 1/20th his age. He likes making others happy, he says.
In Raleigh, North Carolina, , who recalls sparse childhood Christmases, has similarly created wooden toys for 50 years to hand out alongside the Salvation Army. 鈥淢y pay is when I see the smile on kids鈥� faces,鈥� he said.
At Arlington National Cemetery, the entrance was packed Saturday with a wide array of volunteers eager to help lay on veterans鈥� graves. 鈥淚t was really moving,鈥� said one young participant.
And in Newtown, Connecticut, exactly seven years after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, all generations showed up as the football team took to the field after a wrenching day of memorial services. The stands were packed; fans on both sides wore green to honor victims. Then Newtown with a last-minute touchdown, and emotions surged 鈥� for the coach, the parents, the students, everyone else who knew what it meant to have experienced that terrible day in 2012.
鈥淭he whole town showed out on this special night,鈥� said one player. 鈥淲e knew we had to bring it home for our town.鈥�
