Reply #106: Oh yes it did change the world..do you have a draft? No. Do the young adults gather anywhere to

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sit around en masse and smoke dope? No. Think all the new law and order stuff of Nixon's was soley due to civil rights? Hardly.

The so called "woodstock" generation did change the world. Some for the better, some for the worse. Just because you didn't hear that on the nightly news, read it online or read it on twitter does not mean your contention is true. We lived it and we all knew about it and its repercussions without email, facebook or a hundred other ways in which to communicate today that we did not have then.

How do I know this? Well it surely has not been because of the textbooks in school. We listened to our siblings, we watched our brother and sisters fight with our parents, the news broadcast those bodies coming home and we saw them all. The napalm in Nam', the vets on the streets and the Newsmen in VietNam brought it all to us.

The music was great. Good. The sex was probably pretty good too. But what really mattered is that the Woodstock event drew a line in the sand among anyone under the age of 25. So did the the 4 kids who were shot at a college for nothing, absolutely nothing. Whether you fought in VietNam or protested on the streets about the draft or sat in the mud, the nation's leaders had declared war on us. We were the enemy, not the gooks in Nam.

For the youth or young men and women of today...you are the new enemy and I hazard a guess that most of you don't even recognize it. A generation didn't do that to you, your nation's leaders have and are doing it to you.

Forget about how we changed the world...how are you going to change the world? Where's your starting line children? Better find one, you're going to need it. We need you and you need us. Nothing else matters.