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In reply to the discussion: 1968 (Your Help, Please!) [View all]louis c
(8,652 posts)I was 16 years old. I knocked on doors in New Hampshire for Eugene McCarthy. I remember the King assassination from TV. I stayed up all night for the final results from California and saw RFK speak, live on TV just before he was shot. I protested the Viet-Nam War. I campaigned for Louis Kirstein in my home town of Revere to defeat the sitting Mayor to earn a delegate spot at the 1968 Convention in Chicago.
I hated LBJ for the War, HHH for supporting LBJ and wish I did more to help HHH defeat Nixon.
I am now a union leader. I still carry signs at 61 years old and fight for people's rights.
1968 defined my life and that's the year I came of age.
In 2008 I knocked on doors in New Hampshire for Obama. I thought, what a difference 40 years makes as I walked to the doors.