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Yes, Woodstock was a filthy mess.

But all this obscures the real significance of Woodstock: it was when the "counter-culture" became the mainstream culture in this country. By the time I was in high school in 1974, rock music was on TV commercials, and a large fraction of the young smoked the drugs.

We are still working through the cultural fall-out from Woodstock: drug addiction, sexually-transmitted diseases, and broken families.

We are still working through the cultural fall-out from Woodstock: drug addiction, sexually-transmitted diseases, and broken families.

And Americans are still emotionally bleeding from Kerry and his anti-war actions.

But all this obscures the real significance of Woodstock: it was when the "counter-culture" became the mainstream culture in this country. By the time I was in high school in 1974, rock music was on TV commercials, and a large fraction of the young smoked the drugs. We are still working through the cultural fall-out from Woodstock: drug addiction, sexually-transmitted diseases, and broken families.

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Well said. I graduated in '69, Woodstock happened five weeks later. Throughout HS there was very minimal (I do mean very) drug use. In the school year that began September '69 (the class of '70) there was an explosion of reefer and ludes. The school went from near zero problem to kids passing out over the course of one summer...the Woodstock Summer.

We lived two hours away at the time. A lot of kids went and wore it like a badge. Even more lied about having gone. We thought they were all a-holes.