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 a long time ago


Edited by em1o, 23 April 2015 - 11:46 PM.

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One hundred men will test today, but only three will wear the green beret.

 

A different era, for sure.  One I remember, dimly - I was age 1 when that song was on top of the charts (1966).

 

Here's a way to think about the times:  the WW II veterans and their wives who had pulled together the war effort, aging, comfortable, wanting the best of the world, coming to rely more and more on the pinnacle of analog technology and the refinements of WW II ideas - and ideology.  The kids which would become the famous flower-children of the 1960's were JUST turning 18 (the older child in the family was just out of HS striking out on their own, the younger siblings are the ones who became hippies and wanted to experience life without boundaries). 

 

The visionary free-thinker computer/digital types were working on Unix and out in Silicon Valley shaking their heads at the Berkeley/SF culture.

 

Detroit and the UAW were relevant to America's economy.  Oil was plentiful and cheap - no one had any inkling of the '70s oil shocks.  Jet aviation was glamorous, and everyone smoked tobacco and drank Scotch.

 

Eastern Europe was very very dark.  I cannot imagine what I'd have been like had I been born there, then.  Colonialism was winding down, and SE Asia was drawing the attention of the Pentagon, especially in Vietnam.  Things would change fast in the world in the next three years.


Edited by Call_Me_Ishmael, 24 April 2015 - 05:07 AM.

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Did I say Call Me Ishmael?

 

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