The Question of Time: What Was Life Like in 1963?

[HerrKaiser]

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.

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]

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.

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]

It was a much better time. Less social problems than we have today. When I have more time I will go into specifics.

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

[Front-Ranger]

Welcome Tommydreamer. Have a cuppa coffee, won't you? Piece of cherry cake?

Of all times, we could say, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." I get sentimental for the 60s and 70s sometimes, but there was plenty to despise about those times. However, it is important not to be lulled into the notion that things are getting better and better all the time. During the past few years, there has been increasing puritanism and conservatism in the U.S., the Middle East, and some other places. It reminds me of the reign of Savanarola after the flourishing of the Renaissance, when works of art, philosophy, music, etc. perished in the "Bonfire of the Vanities."

[Sheriff Roland]

Lee, I too think that the music was much better then, and the doors ta the house didn't hafta be locked.

But ain't no way that the muslim world is worse off now than it was then --- and in spite a the recent strength gatherin a the far right (in the states) there is NO WAY that the way of life of the 60's and 70's can ever be revisited in the western world. just 10 years ago, the discussion was not about equality in marriage, but protection against hate crimes and fiveyears ago we were just beginning ta get used ta equal adoption rights. Yes there could be an erosion a basic rights in the western world as a result a 9/11, but ain't no way blacks or gays, or women will ever see the inequalities and downright extensive socially accepted bigotry that was common in those 'better days'.

Economically too, the western world at least, is not likely ta return ta the deprivation days that were the norm then. At least not in the near future.

[Brokeback_Dev]

omg i had thoughts of other woman and lesbians starting way back to the sixties.  i was a child.   then in the seventies i wouldnt dare come out.  Too much fear of being considered outcast..labeled or something

[Brokeback_Dev]

omg i had thoughts of other woman and lesbians starting way back to the sixties.  i was a child.   then in the seventies i wouldnt dare come out.  Too much fear of being considered outcast..labeled or something

it was sad really.   On the other hand, kids today especially girls starting in high school even younger are more then socially accepted to have relationships with other girls. 

i love my women today.     mmmm so much fun!

[injest]

it was sad really.   On the other hand, kids today especially girls starting in high school even younger are more then socially accepted to have relationships with other girls. 

i love my women today.     mmmm so much fun!

but even in that I see a degree of discrimination. Look at any porn video...the idea of two women together has always been at the top of men's sexual fantasies. Those same teenage girls (if seen to ONLY go with girls are in as much danger as ever) BIsexuality in girls is much more acceptable.