And the righteous anger of the young poured from the skies...

[cayugafalls]

8. I don't necessarily think we failed as much as we got complacent.

When the war in Vietnam ended it seems like the wind just died down slowly. People graduated college and started careers and families and for a time, the enemy was defeated. Nixon was gone. The war was over. There was some progress on civil rights.

We got lazy...and forgot to continue fighting until the change was complete.

I think you are right though...times are different, there is an immediacy that the kids today experience that we can barely touch. They want real change for a lot of things that go beyond one or two bullet points on a list. It is not just about ending the war, or getting rid of Nixon...there is much work to be done and it seems they have their fingers on the pulse.

I'll support them as best I can for an old hippy dude.