Comments by "My Name Doesn’t Matter" (@mynamedoesntmatter8652) on "The Great Depression: The Collapse of the American Dream | FULL DOCUMENTARY" video.

  1. Dorothea Lange’s haunting, somber photographs tell everything in so much detail. In every face the eyes and drawn looks speak volumes in their austere silences. Yet in some, as in the larger family standing together, the children had socks and were well shod, showing how some people weren’t as destitute. Looking at their faces they seem determined to not be beaten, though they were living in a tent. But in the faces of others who have been reduced to mended rags, weariness brought age that crept into even the faces of children. They look worn, their eyes held a distant emptiness that had taken childhood from them. It would never return. They wear the same as their parents; tattered, ill fitting, piecemeal garments, handed down and too large or too small; worn out dresses, patched pants and shirts. Even what’s past rag bag condition must be saved, mended and worn. Garbage piles were meticulously searched in hopes of finding anything useable. Dorothea’s photographs tell a story without need of a single word. The language of the poor was silence. They’d been left without even their pride. Poverty was all there was. My goodness but the poorest of the poor had less than nothing. Every day another hard day of nothing. A myriad of lives in caravans, weaving a trail through the dirt of endless days and nights without any thought of dreams. The poor could ill afford those. Thank you for an excellent documentary of the Depression.
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  2. Men did wear hats. They did during the next few decades as well, up through most of the fifties. Men wanted a shade in the sun and something warm in the winter, and they always tipped their hats to the ladies. I was just a little girl but I remember that well, and my father wore a hat a lot of the time. These days only men wearing western hats show respect by tipping their hats. I miss the older days.
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