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In reply to the discussion: 1968 (Your Help, Please!) [View all]caraher
(6,276 posts)The only memory I have of 1968 was being in the car and hearing the Apollo 8 Christmas message on the radio.
I'm glad I had no awareness of the assassinations at the time. That, and Vietnam, would have been gut-wrenching.
I do recall some impressions from just a few years later. The 1967 violence in Detroit always loomed large in my mind (I grew up in Detroit) as something that happened mainly in other neighborhoods. I was always proud to still be in the city and was a bit ashamed when my own family left for the suburbs in 1975.
Another big part of my worldview then was that the US was always in a war, somewhere. It's just how things were. Maps with little "blast" symbols marking the sites of battles, F-4s taxiing and taking off on TV... it was just part of the background.
And I thought that there was a stable progression as one aged from kid to teenager to hippie...