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csziggy

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15. I just hope the next few years are not as traumatic as the 1960s were!

Reply to silverweb (Reply #14)

Fri Mar 20, 2020, 07:17 PM

Mar 2020

After the missile crisis was over, about the time things seemed to be getting completely over, JFK was killed and the cycle of helpless feelings started over. It was not until well after Nixon resigned, about the time Jimmy Carter go into the White House that I felt our country was sane again.

Let's hope we can be sane again in January 2021!

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Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. [View all] silverweb Mar 2020 OP

I, myself, in no way equate this with 9/11 hamsterjill Mar 2020 #1

It's the *reaction* that's similar to 9/11, not the event. silverweb Mar 2020 #6

Agreed. hamsterjill Mar 2020 #9

There's nothing to pardon, my friend. silverweb Mar 2020 #10

For this Boomer, this is very much like the feel of the Cuban Missle Crisis csziggy Mar 2020 #12

I never even thought of that. silverweb Mar 2020 #14

I just hope the next few years are not as traumatic as the 1960s were! csziggy Mar 2020 #15

This is far worse than 9/11 CountAllVotes Mar 2020 #2

The events aren't equivalent. silverweb Mar 2020 #8

Pandemics, like wars, speed things up. . . . Journeyman Mar 2020 #3

Amen to that. silverweb Mar 2020 #7

Yes. And the ones who didn't stand up to the challenges we all faced (and will face in the ... SWBTATTReg Mar 2020 #4

Wonder if it will become 2naSalit Mar 2020 #5

The virus has done more damage to the world than Al Qaeda could ever dream of! Initech Mar 2020 #11

Time for way more social good malaise Mar 2020 #13