Was anyone out there alive and aware when JFK, MLK and RFK were shot?

[BlueToTheBone]

69. I think that Kent State was even more

horrifying for me. There were so many deaths during that time. It was out of control. Jack, Bobby, Martin, Jimi, Janice, Jim, the Soledad Brothers, murders of the Black Panthers in the street; the beating of people at the democratic convention. I lived in Berkeley at the time and it was routine to see people being brutalized all the time. They beat a priest at the end of our block one day.

But Kent State woke me completely. I was 21 and naive and even though my parents were horrible, I believed they were the aberration; but the order to shoot college students made me realize; my parents were the norm and they hated us all. The idea that we stepped beyond their control made that whole generation crazy with hate and fear. It was as though they rose from their alcoholic haze and were furious that we didn't want what they did.

Wearing jeans was a signal to each other that we existed, then Madison Ave co-opted that and I knew nothing was safe. I am stunned today that people put their whole lives on the internet. To me, that is just crazy.

We worked hard and tirelessly to stop the War. When Viet Nam ended, we thought we had done something; civil rights had begun, women were stepping out into the world as unique individuals, rather than someone's wife or daughter, we ended the draft (which we thought would help end wars - lol.) We pushed Johnson out and almost impeached Nixon; but we did get him out too.

Our long range view was to live our lives the best we could and raise our children to seek personal power rather than power over. Meanwhile, the MIC quietly slipped into the places of local power and here we are today. Of course, for them, it wasn't a beginning, but a continuation of their relentless push for total control of all the Earth and Her inhabitants.

I feel we failed because we were too short sighted. For the most part we were politically unaware because of our age and then all our role models were killed.

I fear that your generation and the younger generations will not step up; everyone is too numbed out and the MIC is even more powerful. They're like a antibiotic resistant germ and we didn't go far enough with the bleach.