there is NO substitute for cubic inches...
Posted on 09/29/2005 6:19:24 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
"It was the age of selfishness. It was the age of self-indulgence. It was the age of anti-authority. It was an age in which people did all kinds of wrong things."
- Ed Meese III, U.S. Attorney General, Reagan Administration
"It was absolutely exhilarating. It was the greatest time to be alive ever, for sure."
- Charles Kaiser, Author/Historian
It ain't going to get any better!
My uncle was there earlier, my dad there later for the clean up also - 6th Marine Division. I think my uncle was also 6th, but I'm not sure, and with both gone, I'd have to do some digging to find out.
I am glad that we now have people in this country who are truly supportive of those that are making these sacrifices for us. Our young military people deserve all the honors we can give them.
there is NO substitute for cubic inches...
Yeah, yeah--it was a quagmire and all that: I hear the same thing today from the same people about our current war.
Every war was like that and every war will be like that. It is by definition a sordid, stinking thing....
Guess what? We are still going. We are still volunteering. We are still winning.
Good thing, too. I'll bet you'd like living under Sharia about as much as the Southeast Asians enjoyed the Killing Fields.
That's what she said.... DOH!
"Living in fear is soul-killing."
Really?
I lived in fear before I was drafted in 1969. 1969 was about 3 years after I read the "Red Badge of Courage".
"Moments of acute fear are exhilarating."
If I had only known...
I learned that sentiment and spirit from far better men than I.
It's not very fun is it? Not the best moments you remember...
"Moments of acute fear are exhilarating."
If I had only known...
LOL! Well, lemme ammend that: surviving moments of acute fear is exhilarating.
The ratio at Penn State, Pitt and the University of PA was about 80%/20% shaved and bathed, dude.
Colleges, San Francisco, the Village in Manhattan,LA...
They had 'hippies' The rest of us were fairly normal.
Most folks wouldn't have known about it were it not for Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock" recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. After that, it became the touchstone of the "60's generation".
Here is an Oldie Goldie band that plays music from the 1960's!! ENJOY!
http://www.theba6ix.com/
My parents apparently missed the 60s. They were too busy with school, falling in love, and being broke. My dad worked a pool hall and went on to grad school, my mom helped put the two of them through school as a teacher. Both abstained until marriage. They might have 2 drinks per year, which is probably more than they had then. A date was a hamburger on Saturday and a night dancing to a jukebox. And not to Hendrix; I can guarantee that. ;)
I love my parents. Some of the most straight-laced but balanced people I know.
I grew up listening to Reagan on the TV. I remember being sad that he had to leave. I never really knew what he was talking about, as I was too young, but I remember liking him. He seemed liked a grandfather. I felt warm sitting by the TV listening to him with my parents.
Of course, I went to college and became a liberal for 2 years. Then I took a macroeconomics class and learned what the liberal social agenda was REALLY all about.
I admit, it was kind of fun being a rebel in class and casually dismissing liberal mantras deemed to be the unshakeable truth. We had our own little rebellion of sorts in college. One by one we began turning to the "dark" side.
Funny, just a year or two after graduation, loads of my frends who had called themselves liberal were voting for Bush.
Man, oh man, the reaction we got when we declared that aggressive demonstrations were actually anti-democratic... ha! Sent that professor through the roof. ;)
Thanks, I will.
The protestors and hippies of the 60's era were a small minority. Most college campuses were peaceful. Most moms raised their own children and didn't work outside the home. Most families were intact, as divorce was still considered a "scandal." Except for the distorted America we saw on the nightly news, life was very much like the 50's. We remembered the sacrifices made by everybody during WWII (thanks, Texican) and when we saw those strange radicals on TV we could only look at each other and say, "What's their problem?"
However, everybody was politically naive. No conservative talk radio. No internet. Just Walter Crankcase every night on the news telling us That's the Way It Is. We just stumbled around in the dark until the Reagan era. Hey, we couldn't stop smiling for an entire week when he was elected.
Some of us hippies headed right
I don't know what planet you were on in 1970, but Viet Nam was *nothing* like Iraq, and Iraq is nothing like Viet Nam. Militarily or politically.
Any similarities are in the minds of middle aged leftists and media people that hate the miltary.
I was born in 1942 and remember the sixties very well. My favorite memory is watching TV broadcasts of the 1968 Democratic National Convention being held in Chicago. I remember rooting for the Chicago cops every time they whapped another long-haired hippie protester with a billy-club. Heh-heh. Mean ol' SOB ain't I.
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