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Jean Conley's avatar

I remember those days (makes me feel old--but not too old to fight to keep our democracy! Remember Woodstock? I lived on Long Island (grew up there) but didn't go. I know it was quite an event--I actually didn't know it was happening. My family was going to a reunion near Rochester and we passed though the area whee it was held. I'm embarrassed to say we didn't know what was going on! Wasn't it also a protest about the Vietnam War?

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artichoke's avatar

Yes that time was different. We really had no reason to be in the Vietnam War, and LBJ had lied us into it. And sending young men over there, to risk being maimed or killed, or forced to kill "enemies" they had no reason to hate. Then the hippies latched onto the legitimate antiwar movement with their nonsense.

Now Trump is trying to get us OUT of wars that the Democrats (again, the Democrats) put us into.

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