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
I was an Air Force ammo troop at the time in Saudi Arabia.... it was never an objective to take over Iraq.. but at the amazing collapse of the Iraqi Army, some Generals thought it was not a bad idea. Colin Powel put an end to that talk.
I have, burned into my brain, images of a graphic helicopter crash complete with charred human remains. I can see it as clearly today as I did then. Mom came into the room and quickly changed the channel.
That whole mentality continued until the mid-70's. I thought my babysitters were nuts...jeans with peace signs sewn on them....total goofballs. My third grade teacher even had a "music break" during the day, where we listened to anti-war songs.
I have always resented growing up following so immediately behind them...because they completely destroy everything that they touch.
Suit suits with a reet pleat were late '30s and through the '40s. They weren't worn in the '50s.
Well, it was only CNN on cable back then... and the weed was pretty weak.
That is true.
Your right! Boxer and Davis were both not from Cal. Got rid of one. Few more to go.
HAIR, with fill frontal nudity, was on Broadway, in the mid '60s and the costumes for CABERET were very "racy" for the time. So was the abortion and covert homosexuality.
Never been to 42nd street in N.Y.C. I take it. Until it's Disneyfication, in the '90s, I never ever thought that that area would be free of hookers and pimps and peep shows and live sex acts show and drug dealers. And in truth, that area had been that way from the '50s onwards.
"Street people"? They've always and ever been there, in every major and a lot of minor cities. Heck, at the turn of the 20th century, hookers from the Tenderloin, used to proposition one of my Great Uncles by marriage, on his way to and from grammar school!
Get back to me, when you know more history, than just your immediate neighborhood, when you were a child.
"Victims"? Who calls that filth "VICTIMS"? They were, ALL of them thugs and criminals!
How true. Maybe even longer, lol! : )
PBS, Dan Rather, et all.
I'm sorry the sleaze from your area of expertise has managed to eventually infect the rest of the country. It really was quite pleasant during the early sixties in most areas of California.
Until the lib east coasters invaded.
I lived through them, some as an adult and I remember every single minute of them.
Hmmm... did not know. What are their financial backgrounds? I assume they lived in a log cabin at some point...
You can blame Dan Rather for a lot of that; but the other two nightly news channels did much of the same thing, starting in '68!
I'm so sorry that you had to live through that, as such a little child.
The most damaging thing about the 1960's is the academia, media and political elite it bred which are nostalgic for the radical leftism of the 1960's.
Regards, Ivan
The "FREE SPEECH MOVEMENT" started in Berkley, Cal,in '63-'64, but didn't really reach N.Y.C, until '69, or so.
You forgot Lyndon Johnson.
YUCK!
California had it's own areas, where this stuff raged; some of it far earlier than it ever did, on New York.
Yes. Only now it doesn't make the nightly news, and if it did, nobody would care.
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