Who went through the 60's and lived through to tell about it? How was it?

Answer 1

The common perception in popular culture(the hippie thing etc;) is not really accurate. I was born in 1956 so I spent most of grade schools years in the 60's. I remember being scared during the Cuban missile crisis. Communist aggression was a legitimate fear. The assassinations of J.F.K.,M.L.K., and R.F.K. was quite traumatic. The was a lot optimism with quite a few people surrounding these three men. I remember my mother being quite upset about J.F.K., although my father was no fan of the Kennedy's he though they where a bunch of phonies. To us the hippie thing was a million miles away in San Francisco or New York City(I grew up in rural Pennsylvania in the Dutch country)
I grew up in military family and my father did a tour of Viet Nam with the Air Force in the early 70's plus a few airlifts to Asia. A few of the older boys from my neighborhood served in the war and my parents would have us send Christmas cards to them etc. On my 18th birthday(1974) my father took me to the draft board to register for the draft. Because the war had gone so long there was fear with boys my age who had been exposed to news coverage daily since we were young boys we would probably have to go. They stopped drafting for the war in 1972 or 3

Answer 2

I went to high school in the 60s. My neighbor across the street died in Vietnam. My rural community never got into the drug scene--mostly just beer. I remember the short dresses and wild colors.

Answer 3

i did, for some reason tho i cant recall too much, myt have been the drugs.

Answer 4

It was fine . No problem