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In reply to the discussion: Generation JKF About to Re-Live the 60's in Their 60's: Are You Experienced? [View all]riverbendviewgal
(4,252 posts)Going on 16. I was horrified. We had off from school and I watched the TV night and day. It changed me. I became anti war. My family and I were at odds with each other. Six years later I voted with my feet and was accepted by Canada with husband. He was a resistor, protestor, CO claimant (denied), draft dodger, deserter. He took Carter's ammesty. He went to the Pentagon to appeal his other than honorable.it was Denied.
I had hatred of the US government but never have I hated the US government like I do now. When Obama was elected I had such high hopes.
Before Trump I visited relatives and been a snowbird and traveled 40 states. Since Trump I have decided to never return, not even to see relatives. I cut the Trump lovers off. Their hatred and racism was too much to bear.
These memories of my youth overshadow any of my personal memories. I can visualize these events as if theyare happening today. Events up to age 26.
Desegregation, joe McCarthy, JFK election, MLK, JFK and Bobby Kennedy Assassinations, viet nam on tv every night, Eichmann trial, race riots, moon landing.Kent state, Mai Li, watergate. Missile Crisis. Hiding under my desk for air raid drills.
Constant hatred and war in the "Greatest Country" in the world. I have read The Ugly American and Confessions of an Economic hit man.
So much more since I was 26. Never stopping. Ike was right. Naomi Klein is right. Corporations have corrupted the country. My US history teacher taught the class that empires implode within from corruption.
Seeing the protests after Trumps election have given me hope. But Today I read some cable news said the protests are done, that people now accept Trump.
Please don't give up. Vote, protest. Never be silent.
Read Howard Zinn to your children. In America a strange "nice" version of US History is taught. Not the truly horrible real history.