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In reply to the discussion: 1968 (Your Help, Please!) [View all]Historic NY
(37,449 posts)as a young kid the tv news was dotted with the nightkly body counts from Vietnam. Crap was blowing up around our coutry with the struggle for civil rights. Protests against the war and for civil rights. Nightly news dotted with cities burning here wit the riots. Nearby our city was burning and there was looting. Watched the Democrats beatup on LBJ and finally he said he was done....they then went after each other. We were happy when RFK got going, he came here to campaign as he was our Senator. Then it all went in the sewer the assassinations of MLK and the RFK. Riots, here riots then even at the convention in Chicago...cops beating people , fire hoses being used...it was like everything was falling apart. Tv news brought more Vietnam woes, with promises to end it all. We made it into the late fall. Space was getting exciting Apollo 8 was going to wizz by the moon...we (as a family) watch with excitment on Dec 21st...and then on Dec 27th death came to my house my father suddenly died at 51....1968 sucked. My life changed forever.