"We had three TV channels - at 11 PM the National Anthem was played against the background of Old Glory, while a formation of F-100 Super Sabers flew by. Then the screen went blank. "
That just brought back a memory, of sleeping over at a freinds, and us staying up just to see it.
I grew up in upstate NY (born in 64), and I remember some of it, pretty much what everyone else has said. As my mom said, it was all innocent then - the world still had hope, people were upbeat and honest, and you could trust strangers.
I look at our modern world, and marvel at all that we've done...and wonder why we're unhappier, nastier, more selfish, have no tolerance, little patience, and little respect for anything, and everywhere you look it's corruption and dishonesty. I dimly remember a different world, and I sometimes resent the aged hippies here in the Bay Area who champion the idiocy that they wrought. for despising such innocense, in the name of selfish gratification.
"As my mom said, it was all innocent then - the world still had hope, people were upbeat and honest, and you could trust strangers."
It was not always innocent and there were also people that could not be trusted, but you are right when you say that there was hope. Hope because of our UNITY.
Since that time we have imported a large number of immigrants from 3rd world countries who have no intention of ever integrating and some of them even hate this country.
We are slowly becoming a 3rd world nation ourselves under the guise of diversity. This excuse for wanting diversity in our society will do this nation in. Look at the greatest generation who stormed Omaha Beach and Tarawa and you notice very little diversity there. If there was, nobody emphasized it. The same can be said of the people who signed the Declaration of Independence.
What is meant with diversity today is: if you love America and I hate it, we have diversity. Will it benefit America? I am deeply convinced that the destruction of America is done by design because the superiority of one country is not acceptable by the UN. Notice how anti-American that organization is.
Additionally there is an anti-Christian movement underway to destroy the soul of this country. Visit any Muslim country and notice the plight of the few Christians that live there. Yet we allow these same Muslims to invade us.
In a way, you're lucky that you didn't know America in the 50's. Then you'd really be upset.