Posted on 11/22/2018 9:55:53 AM PST by Politically Correct
Did 1968 win the cultural war?
Fifty years ago this year, the '60s revolution sought to overturn U.S. customs, traditions, ideology and politics.
The '60s radicals eventually grew older, cut their hair and joined the establishment. Most thought their revolution had fizzled out in the early 1970s without much effect, as Americans returned to "normal."
But maybe the '60s, not the silent majority, won out after all. The world a half-century later looks a lot more like 1968 and what followed than what preceded it.
Most of the political and cultural agenda from that turbulent period -- both the advances and the regressions -- has long been institutionalized. The military draft, for good or bad, has remained defunct. There is greater transparency in politics, fewer smoke-filled rooms. Disabled children, once ostracized and/or dismissively labeled "retarded," are now far better integrated into society and treated more ethically as special-needs kids. The rights of women, minorities and the LGBT community are now widely accepted.
Yet lifestyles have been radically altered -- and often not for the good. Before the late '60s, most Americans married before having children; afterwards, not so much. One-parent households are now far more common.
Other legacies of the '60s include couples marrying later and having fewer children. A half-century later, these social inheritances often mean prolonged adolescence, older parents, delayed or nonexistent home ownership, and more emphasis on leisure time than on household chores.
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Buckley’s accent was New Englander, spoken through the nose & front of the mouth.
At the Battle of Bunker Hill whenever Col. Putnam gave the order “Fire!” all the British heard was “Twang!”
I also remember his humorous account of how he accidentally discharged his pistol through his omni indicator after landing.
I know a guy who flew the Huey in Vietnam, he's a retired cop. Very cool guy.
I may have read Chickenhawk that same year or another Vietnam novel where a PFC flounces into the C.O.’s office, announces that he’s queer and demands a Section 8 discharge. The C.O. gets up, unzips his fly and advances toward the PFC saying “Prove it”.
The PFC hastily retreats and declares he’s not really queer. The C.O. tells him to get the h*** back to work.
Anyway, that was before `chickenhawk’ became politicized & no longer meant a bird of prey.
Accidental discharge used to mean a field grade Article 15. I wore my trusty .38 in a belt holster. Trying to figure out how that would happen
My recollection is that his boss was angry with him, but that he had come just through on a real hazardous mission, and they found a way to replace the omni and fix the hole in the front of the Huey, and life went on except that the other guys would give him s*** about it from time to time.
One of the lines was something like "so exactly what happened, did the omni try to sneak up on you, or did you just suddenly decide to kill the s*** out of it?"
It may have been one of the times he was on his way home and saw smoke in the distant jungle, radioed it in along with approximate location, and was immediately ordered to go investigate and rescue any personnel if possible.
Yes, I think that incident was in Chickenhawk.
I had a pet white rat that I named Radical. I was eight
I will not accept that the world changed before I was even born and that somehow leftists won. It is time to turn the tide against these horrible leftists.
JoMa
Yes. I had that figured before Clinton took office.
They exposed the “people’s war” as a hoax when they executed so many civilians during Tet in ‘68 - a real warning to the world as to what the communists intended for the people of South Vietnam.
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