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Things Younger Americans Should Know

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by wickedwritah, Jul 16, 2007.

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  1. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    God I'm going to sound like an old fart here but I think they did, at least moreso than today's youth.

    Freedom Rides, helped desegregate the South. Voting rights drives. VISTA, the Peace Corps. Hundreds of thousands of college-age students.

    The protests that eventually ended the Vietnam War. Ditto. The possibility of being drafted made you care about the war, unlike now, when no one really sacrifices except those who volunteered for the Army, and their immediate families.

    Come clean for Gene, the RFK campaign ... Ditto.
     
    micropolitan guy, Jul 18, 2007
    #97
  2. spnited

    spnited Active Member

    Right on, Micro!
     
    spnited, Jul 18, 2007
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  3. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

     
    DanOregon, Jul 18, 2007
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  4. Freelance Hack

    Freelance Hack Active Member

    "Emily is terrific."

    "Yeah, but of course when I asked her where she was when Kennedy was shot she said, 'Ted Kennedy was shot?'"
     
    Freelance Hack, Jul 18, 2007
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  5. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    Most of the young people who involved in the counter-culture of the 1960s were doing it because it was hip, to party and to hook up.
    I don't think young people today are less informed or less intelligent, although the education they have received is not as thorough.
     
    Buck, Jul 18, 2007
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