Will the 1960’s — or the American reaction to it — ever end?
There are those who say the final year of World War II was not 1945 but 1991, when the Soviet Union was dissolved. The Cold War was the next phase of the conflict in Europe, goes the thinking.
So by the same reasoning we’ve still got a few years left before the tumult of the late 1960’s will have run its full half-century course.
The GOP candidate for president was a prisoner of war in Vietnam. The friction over race and rights plays itself out within the Democratic Party — with special scenes scripted in Chicago.
To make it more explicit, the former Weatherman, Bill Ayers, becomes a target for political association with Barack Obama — by a candidate whose presidential husband pardoned a couple of psycho-60’s nostalgists.
Flag pins or anti-war marches — take your pick. Big differences: Now you can buy the pins on e-bay, watch the demos on YouTube. Bigger difference: There’s no draft, at least not yet.
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The post World War 2 era ended on November 22 1963. That day "celebrates" an immense punctuation point, a radical demarcation point in which the 1950s and the era of Ike and Ozzie and Harriet passed into history. The new period ushered in the 60s as we know them and love them(or despise them).