Damn; I am a Roman Catholic and I guess I have to be lumped in with Romney. First part of the 60s I was to young to do dope and get laid, second part of the 60s I was pretty busy doing my 4 years in the the Marine Corps. I did notice when I came home on leave before shipping out that the people in my age group had become kind of strange and unemployable.
I got my Dear John about 8 months into my tour, seems she just couldn’t live with being engaged to a member of the military/industrialist complex who killed men, women and Children for a living (thank God). I guess I can’t be an authentic human being by that standard. I must be a Sears-Roebuck model, but lets not forget that Sears also makes the Craftsman model of tools.
The election of JFK was the initial triumph of incandescent boolshiite over even the semblance of productive electoral thought processes. Even then, it took massive vote fraud in Texas and Illinois to put the SOB in.
Vietnam? JFK was specifically warned by President Eisenhower AND General MacArthur to not commit American troops beyond the rather low-key, non-uniformed advisory, supply, and training roles in which we were engaged. Vietnam? It was JFK's show. However, to this day, the post 1960's people blame the war on Nixon ... who ended it; disastrously to be sure.