Yes it was~ In stark contrast to the little skirmish over making sure the French didn't look bad for dumping out on the Vietnamese.
As I approach another life marker, the 60's were what they were. What could one have expected out of a generation who learned in the 50's about duck and cover, how you could drink the water out of the back of your toilet tank in the event of a nuclear attack, dismissing school so all the kids could walk home because the bomb had fallen. How about the neighborhood bomb shelter salesman...or the pics from Los Alamos about the latest above ground "test" of a nuclear weapon... oh yeah, how about the Cuban Missle crisis and how we thought about Amageddn daily...
THEY ( our beloved Gov. ) •••••• up a generation, hippies were just a segment of the discontent in America, the times were not all Ward and June with Wally and the Beav.... but there were moments that showed how we could all get along and I am proud of the fact that a half a million strangers got together for tunes and whatever but nobody got killed!
If I could, looking back, have chosen a year in which to be born I'd have not moved mine. I was about 3 years young for Woodstock, I was a sophomore in high school at the time cruising around in '57 Chevy, SS396 and GTO's, but man . . . what a GREAT time.
Yeah, would not change mine either, first ride was a 62 Vette, bought it for 500 bucks! Then I sold it and got a 66 Malibu SS396 that I was in love with until I bought my 67 GT 350 Shelby. When I came back I put in a roller cammed Holman & Moody Boss 302 into the GT. Sold the Shelby to pay for my first honeymoon and marriage.
Only regret is learning to kill another human being that I did not even know for a country that didn't care.
Posted on Saturday, September 05, 2009 - 07:07 pm:
From a 20 something guy trying to raise a family with "old hippies" at the the wheel of the Gov., thanks alot for the contributions to deteriorate the society and morality of the United States.
Honestly, we could have done without it. It was an irresponsible generation and hippies smell bad to boot.
(Message edited by Cudajohn on September 05, 2009)
