Retrospective

I moved on to "real life" but never really lost those ideals. Yes, I do think we had something special then that I have not seen since. Young people with energy for change and protest seem to have nowhere to direct it now, and it gets dissipated. They seem more bitter--we were angry, but we actually believed fiercely in something.

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Do I have memeories? Sure. At all of them, there was a warmth, a community spirit, of we were on the side of right, and that being on the right side, for once, did *not* involve kiling and dying, but rather trying to *stop* the killing.

The world's a lot colder, with most of the kids these days, and all their "grown-up" parents, who were mostly not at the demonstrations, anyway...

Nope. It po's me, too, [that old] Bill Clinton's too much the consumate politician to do it, needs to say, "we were *wrong* in going into the Vietnam War, it *was* a war, those that ran it, and made the decisions owe an apology to those who fought against the War, and they owe an unexpungeable debt to those who went and fought it, and an unimaginable debt to those who died."

*Then* maybe this country will believe a politician, and *then* maybe both sides could forgive.

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