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The Question of Time: What Was Life Like in 1963?
HerrKaiser:
--- Quote from: brokeback_dev on February 21, 2007, 07:50:01 pm ---Did anybody else wear a POW bracelet and army jacket besides me?
I still get teary thinking of our boys over in that hell hole of a place.
First time I ever got high was with a couple Viet Nam vets who musta just got home. It was back in 1972.
I started my experimentation with drugs early in life. Goes to show you why I dont do it anymore.
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What the heck were you doing getting stoned at age 11? In 1972 that was almost unheard of. Must have been quite a situation for you; hope everything is OK.
the POW bracklet and the amy jacket stuff (we called it a cpo) kicked about 1970ish after Kent State and the Cambodian invasion. When the Democrat convention riots occured in 1968, it was the trigger that started much of the widespread anti war sentiments and activity. during 1969 and early 1970, things kept moving ahead in terms of anti war movement, but Cambodia and kent state were huge trigger points that catapulted the movement into its more famous/infamous modes.
the early anti war efforts were actually quite preppy-ish and yuppy-ish. It really got its beginning at the U of Michigan were the SDS was founded and of course the weatherman faction. Many of these students were elite children of priviledge and wealth who went radical for a variety of reasons in the immediate post-kennedy era of 1963-64.
Brokeback_Dev:
--- Quote from: HerrKaiser on February 21, 2007, 09:04:29 pm ---What the heck were you doing getting stoned at age 11? In 1972 that was almost unheard of. Must have been quite a situation for you; hope everything is OK.
the POW bracklet and the amy jacket stuff (we called it a cpo) kicked about 1970ish after Kent State and the Cambodian invasion. When the Democrat convention riots occured in 1968, it was the trigger that started much of the widespread anti war sentiments and activity. during 1969 and early 1970, things kept moving ahead in terms of anti war movement, but Cambodia and kent state were huge trigger points that catapulted the movement into its more famous/infamous modes.
the early anti war efforts were actually quite preppy-ish and yuppy-ish. It really got its beginning at the U of Michigan were the SDS was founded and of course the weatherman faction. Many of these students were elite children of priviledge and wealth who went radical for a variety of reasons in the immediate post-kennedy era of 1963-64.
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Thanks for the concern and yes i was very young to be smoking pot at age 11. None of my friends were doing it, and i might add none of the friends i choose to be with now do it either. I am fine now. As for the army jacket it wasnt a cpo, it was actually a green jacket probably came from one of those second front stores so popular back then. We didnt have stoned washed jeans as they do today. We actually bought other ppls old used worn out jeans and stuff. We would also actually wear our jeans till they had holes him them, then used colorful materials to sew patches on them. oops a lil off topic sorry.
Brokeback_Dev:
OK, truth be told my sister was a hippie and i idolized her. :)
Tommydreamer:
It was a much better time. Less social problems than we have today. When I have more time I will go into specifics.
Sheriff Roland:
--- Quote from: Tommydreamer on February 24, 2007, 12:26:15 pm ---It was a much better time. Less social problems than we have today. When I have more time I will go into specifics.
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Also less social equality - not such a 'better time' fer some!
I was either a criminal - or a medically sick and treatable homosexual, who could be arrested for being who I was
Not such a 'better time', if you see it from my point a view
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