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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]TexasBushwhacker
(20,174 posts)42. I was 6. I saw him the day before in Houston
My mother took me downtown to watch the motorcade. It was a beautiful indian summer day and his hair looked red in the sunlight.
We went to the Unitarian church and many members were active in the anti-war movement. It was then that I found out my parents were Goldwater Republicans.
I look at how things were then and how they are now, and I just don't understand how anyone can support military action as anything but a last resort. I just can't understand the mind of a "hawk".
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McCamy Taylor
Apr 2017
OP
Oh yes. Graduated HS in '66. If the mountains crumble to the sea, let it be. It ain't me.
ancianita
Apr 2017
#11
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom,
struggle4progress
Apr 2017
#24