I was less than a teen in the 60s but I remember it very well. Pretty stupid for the most part.
And the part about hippies spitting on our servicemen returning from Vietnam and Hanoi Jane? that would NEVER happen again if I have anything to say about it. Plus, people wouldn’t get away with now because they’d be “ripped a new one” on the blogs and Internet.
And we’d know the facts about Communism — that it was indeed a scourge on humanity and something to be feared.
When we landed in San Francisco, a stewardess said there might be some nasty ‘people” waiting for us somewhere in the Terminal but we didn’t see any. But it was 2:00 am. We were going to kick some ass if somebody spit on us. We wanted to get home and were in no mood for fools.
When we saw Woodstock on the NEWS my Dad said it was a bad sign.