When you contact the webmaster at the TimePage there is an option available requesting that the comments be published. The process wasn't automated and was difficult to manange on a static web site. On this post I am going to accumulate those email responses from the recent past. Hopefully, any comments in the future will be brought to the TimeLog directly but if not I will add them to this list. If these comments are from you I welcome clarification or further discussion. A side note: I get a lot of abusive and/or personal comments that request publication as well and, as with the comments in the TimeLog, I reserve the right and responsibility to filter those out for the rest of the readers.

(11/1/2005)Submitter: Cassidy Kohl
User Comments: Thank you for putting up all this history. Whenever I need info I know where to go.

(10/28/2005)Submitter: Amy Scanlon
User Comments: I personally, have always been extremely skeptical of the whole "generations" theory. Having looked at this theory, and other versions of it I have come to the following conlcusions.
1) Much like birth order theory, every one who studies it has a slightly to very different take. And none seem to produce empirical results.
2) That all this talk of generations, is mostly an American obsession and mostly driven by market advertising to put people into tidy little "target markets". Then usually, somebody writes the obstenible "defining" book or movie for this "generation", then the pundits just cut and run with it.
3) That even the exact dates at which a generation begins and ends, is often up for demographic grabs. That science is valid for say talking about the number of school children who need books in a given year, or how many people will be collecting social security in 30, but not for the vast generalizations about people or their attitudes that generation theory claims.
4) From personal experience, I have seen the generalizations about Boomers, Silents, X's, Millenials, GI generation, and other titles some have put such as "busters", "nauchers", "borders", "Y", or other names to have much truth. Having been born in late '74, I certainly don't identify with ANY of the things said about "Generation X", (or some others might consider me a "Y", or a post buster, or even an early millenial depending on what theory of this one believes). I'm not disillusioned, underparented, cynical, or any of the other things said of people my age, and neither are most of the agemates I know. In fact, I've found all those claims to be rather offensive if not a ploy from the Republicans to try and "claim" us.

(10/13/2005)Webmaster note: What can I say?
User Comments: aWeSoMeNeSsEsSsSsSs!!!! hahahaha this site is so0o0o0o0o0o0o cool!!

(9/13/2005)Submitter: Alexis
User Comments: I think your site is ok. Im studying on the Colonial Times and this information for my middle school history project. It's not very organized. It would be better if your subjects were in Contents on the left side. Maybe, even some pictures might help. Also, if someone was trying to find something about the owner of this site. I can't find it. And this is what my project is about. It'd help if you had a content on you. And what you do for a living. Because for all I know you could just be a guy who thinks he knows what he's talking about. The site is also very plain.

(8/28/2005)Submitter: Keith Hills
User Comments: Mr. Bill Murray August 28th 2005. I stumbled onto your website and felt I would like to contact you once or perhaps twice. God willing I will celebrate my 70th birthday in 35 days. My slice of this life has been a super slice and it is getting better by the week and the day. I don't know where you want to go with your website but I sense that you want to make a difference and that you believe that you will. If you do, then we have that much in common and perhaps a lot more. write to me if you care to.

(8/18/2005)Webmaster note: The following comment caused a little further research and some additional material added to the 13 Originals web page.
User Comments: I am sorry to inform you that your information on New Hampshire is wrong. The colony was founded by John Mason and others in 1623 and became royal in 1679. I know that you are wrong due to the fact that my college book says this information. The American Pagent, A History of the Republic, Eleventh Edition, Created by Thomas A. Bailey, Lizabeth Cohen of Harvard University and David M. Kennedy of Standford University.

(8/17/2005) Webmaster note: This email didn't ask for publication so it is anonymous but it caused me to look into the dates and led to the addition of comments about the Gregorian/Julian calendar confusion on the 13 Originals web page.)
User Comments: You stated that the Mayflower Compact was signed on November 21, 1620. I have been doing research for an English project. I have been making a timeline and many many other websites state it as being signed on the 11th. I would like to know where you got that date and why it is different from all other sources.

(7/2/2005)Submitter: Rev. John
User Comments: Hi, I'm a student of this, and while I don't believe in using past cycles to predict the distant future, I do believe that Strauss and Howe can be credited with predicting the entire 9/11 crisis and the aftermath in the "war on terrorism." Terrorism is an extreme and alien form of idealism fought by an army of "reactives". When the attacks first took place, enlistment increased - again our own reactive generation lining up for the fight. All the while, GW Bush says he does not follow opinion polls but is out to eradicate evil and do what is right, "idealism." Their book predicted that when the boom generation took power, we would have WWIII. We are there.

(4/15/2005) Submitter: Bruce
User Comments: First, I checked "if you would like a response from me" to indicate that it's fine if you want to respond, not that I'm requesting a response. Lord knows you must get a lot of email. I read 'Generations', and quickly into the book realized that these people were onto something. I first found it in 2003, 12 years after the publication date noted inside, and the "predictions" chapters were already coming true (in the more general sense). I'm a first year 'X'er, working for a 'Boomer', who is married to a 6th year 'X'er. Last year, there was an almost-riot by fishers in Nova Scotia, Canada, in which a couple of fishing boats were burnt. My (boomer) boss's comment was "how can these people burn their friend's boats?" Mine was "good time to collect the insurance and get out of a losing industry by burning your own boat." After I mentioned that, my boss said, bemusedly, that his (Xer) wife had said the same thing!