[Miss Marple]

Well, I lived it, and I don't want to go back. I graduated from high school in 1966. The years prior to my graduation were happy years...sort of like Animal House times. The years AFTER my graduation (1967-1970) were nothing but anger and fear.

I was an Air Force wife in those years...my son was born in 1968. Constant complaining, unhappiness, anger, rage, paranoia...no thanks! I have NO fond memories of those years, and that was when I became disenchanted with the media.

If you want to get a good idea of the 60's (and the early 70's), rent Forrest Gump. It was not a time that anyone should recall with fondness.

[operation clinton cleanup]

I graduated from high school in 1966. The years prior to my graduation were happy years...sort of like Animal House times. The years AFTER my graduation (1967-1970) were nothing but anger and fear.

Thanks for your thoughts.... It seems like one step forward, two steps back since then.

[daler]

I agree with almost all of what you said (I'm a little younger, but we're contemporaries).

Where I take exception is the "anger and fear" comment.

I think of the 60's as a time of rapid change and technological modernization, surfing, great network television (particularly "Green Acres" :), Elvis, Motown and the Beatles, cool cars and landing a man on the moon.

It was exciting; not all negative.

You often hear "if you remember the 60's, you weren't there."

Well, I was there...and I remember it clearly and fondly.

And, unlike most of my buddies, Ripple was the most illicit substance I consumed (maybe that's why I remember).

[cubreporter]

You got it. A hateful, vengeful, ugly, nasty scar on our country. A lot of trouble makers wondering around like the world owed them a living. they hated their parents but still managbed to live at home and take advantage of the love their parents still had for them. Hypocrites all. I'm like you. Nothing in that time is worth anything.

[Commander Salamander]

"I graduated from high school in 1966"

So did I ! The 50's were my favorite time. The cars, the music, the styles.

[RobbyS]

I was thirty in 1965, which meant I was beyond the pale. But, you are right. Forrest Gump got it right. Compare Forrest with the love of his life. Forest always did the right thing.

[Willie Green]

The years AFTER my graduation (1967-1970) were nothing but anger and fear.

Those were MY high school years...
I certainly agree that those were the years when social upheaval displaced the post-WWII dreams of suburban utopia... but the music was GREAT! (Disco put an end to that in the '70s)