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Showing Original Post only (View all)Does this atmosphere, this feeling in the air, remind you any of the late Sixties...? [View all]
With RFK and MLK, with Woodstock, with Watergate, with impeachment of Nixon filling the atmosphere and the air we breathed?
The people revolted in the most peaceful way they could. They understood the words of Gandhi, of MLK, of RFK, and other leaders of peace. Much of the atmosphere at Woodstock was political because the people felt their government was not accountable.
There was a feeling of victory, in a strange way, when Nixon stood on the step of the helicopter and waved goodbye to America for the last time.
The lies about the Vietnam War, about Cambodia, about a plan "to end the war". There had been the Mylai Massacre and more than 58,000 Americans killed in that jungle of a foreign policy.
And the young generation stood up. They marched. They educated. Sometimes they rioted. It was a very unpredictable time in many ways.
And they had friends in the House and Senate - men like George McGovern. He lost to Nixon in a landslide, but two years later, Nixon was giving the double peace sign from the step of a helicopter.