Posted on 05/14/2025 5:09:00 PM PDT by DallasBiff
This BBC film examines the myth behind the sixties, which was itself created before the decade was even out but has since lingered in all of our minds. What we have lived with however is merely a mirage and this documentary sets about exposing the truth, suggesting that we are living on borrowed time as a result of those who indulged whilst an unchecked Britain experienced an industrial decline. Looking back on old archived footage and the political atmosphere of the time a case is built against the decade we all consider to be filled with dreams
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Definitely something in the air in the Summer of Love,
Thunderclap Newman aka Pete Townshend.
The revolution will not be televised.
Pete produced it. The singer was also the one who sang “Armenia, City In The Sky” on The Who Sell Out.
Where were you? In a closet. From 65 on it was Viet Nam 24/7. I lived it. The guys I knew were getting drafted right and left. Next stop Viet Nam. I knew people that got killed and wounded. It affected our whole generation. That was the bad part of the sixties.
A few buildings down from me, THE LOVIN' SPOONFULS would site on the stoop and play and sing sometimes, in nice weather.
And just WHERE were YOU?
Pssssssssssssssssssssssssst...I NEVER claimed that I didn't know anything about the Nam War; I said that I never KNEW anyone who was in the mess there; BIG difference!
It was a reply to YOU claiming that EVERYONE YOU KNEW WAS THERE!
I am so sorry that happened to you. It never should have been that way. It was a small but very vocal and visible few who perpetrated that. Definitely a dark part of the sixties. You’ll always have my gratitude for your service and I’m sure that the vast majority of your fellow Americans feel the same way I do. Don’t let the bastards get you down.
OK so you lived in a vacuum in Greenwich Village. We sent 2.7 million military personnel to Viet Nam from 1964 to 1975 and you never met ANYONE. 🤔
Most people in college at that time including me at FSU knew people who were getting drafted to Viet Nam. It was an everyday occurrence. That’s my personal experience and it wasn’t unusual. All of my friends had similar experiences.
I think you’re the odd guy out on this one. I’m glad you didn’t have to go.
More than YOU ever lived through, I was sadly privy to sites, sounds, and events that YOU never were, through no fault of my own, nor of your's.
Sadly, I saw, accidentally, up close and personal, Abbey Hoffman and the boys training young MORONS how to throw bags of urine and feces at cops, at the DEM Convention of '68. I was cutting through Central Park to go visit someone and there the rabble were, on the Sheep's Meadow.
I lived near the brownstone that the WeatherUnderground blew up, destroying the building and killing themselves ( too bad Ayers wasn't there that afternoon, but his girlfriend was! ), while building bombs.
And those two examples are only an extremely tiny part of what I saw and heard, IN PERSON!
I watched the news, read several different newspapers, knew what was going on; however, NO, I never did personally KNOW anyone who went to Nam. NOT EVERYONE DID ! And that's all I said, which YOU took and kept taking as OFFENSIVE. WHY?
OTOH, I do know someone who was in the Air Force during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I bet that YOU don't know anyone who was involved in THAT! And no, I don't expect that you did/would, nor even know all THAT much about THAT!
When I was in college and grad school, the guys either weren't getting drafted, or later on, got deferments.
The boys at FSU were getting drafted?
We all have led different lives and I don't understand WHY you are so upset with me.
But with age comes some sort of mellowing and I now realize that young men who didn't sign up probably knew something about themselves that spared the rest of us from them. Some guys are just not cut out for combat. That, and it's hard to hold onto resentment for the decisions that we make when we're 19-20 years old.
I made a special point of honoring the returning veterans of the Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan and I used to visit the wounded in Bethesda and Walter Read during those wars.
We should never again do to our veterans what was done during my war.
I'm glad that you have tried to put it behind you ( I know that it really must have hurt a LOT, especially after what YOU had already just been through ), but your call to serve and your valiant efforts meant and still DO mean a LOT to the rest of us.
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