Is there anyone on DU-3 who lived through Vietnam War Era..whose life was changed by the DraftWar?

[Warren Stupidity]

4. 1965-1975 were an unbelievably intense period of time.

The intensity of that period is reflected in its ongoing and disastrous ripple effect: the culture war. For me, born in '51, in the draft of '69, and in full antiwar resistance from '67 onwards, it defined my life, my political outlook, and my understanding of how the world works.


"Communes" (Communities of Sustainable Living) not any definition I ever used but perhaps close enough. Communes were and are shared 'collective' living arrangements, similar to the kibbutz movement in israel. While over-indulgence in drugs was a feature, it was not a requirement, and the ones that survived tended to stay away from or evolve past drug culture.

In the way the OWS today provides a place for revolution to happen, the 60s (and the 70's) counter culture provided a place - many places, places in every city of even modest size, where one could go and live for very little, could hook up with communes, could disappear from the draft. It was that sustained environment - the escape from the dictated life-plan of the 1950's Leave It To Beaver nightmare, that was the gem of the era.