Who was around in the 60s or 70s era?

The title says it all. It's a sense of curiousity, and I would like to hear your story. What kind of good and bad things that happened in the sixties and the seventies? Please, I would highly appreciate it if I didn't get responses like, "Oh, I wasn't...

around that decade - sorry." Thanks.

Once again, if you were around the sixties or seventies, tell your story.

The 60's and 70's were cold war years. We worried about a WWIII between the US and USSR ending civilation as we know it. To understand the fear we lived under think of the threat of global warming and then increase it 1,000,000 times. We pondered if there would be any people left after a world nuclear war; we thought it might be the extinction of mankind.

As a boy in the 60's and early 70's I worried about my oldest brother getting drafted and dying in Vietnam. We saw on the news pictures of wounded and dead soldiers in Vietnam. This sort of press coverage is no longer allowed. We see videos of smart bombs instead of blood and corpses. Back then reports reported the news instead of repeating sound bites fed to them by the government.

As much doom and gloom there was a lot of great things from these decades. The civil rights movement worked toward equality for minorties. There was also women's liberation and hope that the Equal Rights Ammendment would pass. The pill allowed women to decide when and if they would have kids. The pill probably did more to liberate women than any legeslation of that period.

Watergate shook our government to its knees. It also exposed the abuse of power by the Nixon administration. Nixon resigned in disgrace and then Ford pardoned Nixon of any wrongdoing. That was one of the most controversial pardons in history. Many people felt since Nixon appointed Ford as VP that it was a quid pro quo.

There was lots of great music in the 60's and early 70's. The Beatles, Stones, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Animals, Jefferson Airplane, CCR, Zombies, etc. Later 70's we had Disco and it was a drag.

That is what the 60s and 70s meant to me.

haha wouldnt you be at least in your mid 40's lol im a 90's girl

After thinking about I remember a few more things. There was the moon landing in 1969. I remember watching the first steps on the moon live on TV. There was the bicentenial in 1976 which was a huge celebration. Much of the clothes were awful. Bell bottomed jeans, polyester, and then toward the end of the 70's the dreaded leisure suit.

I can identify with all of what filletofspam said, but I'm probably a little older (Class of '67). One of the things that I would add is that many of us had a sense that the whole hippy movement just might actually change the world with a revolution of love and peace. I'd also mention the despair that we felt the Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were killed. In 1970 I joined the Air Force rather than be drafted and have no choice of which service I went into. I was in Korea during my daughter's first year of life and was terribly homesick. During the time I was in Korea the Yom Kippur War happened in the mid-east. The Soviets (now the Russians) threatened to send "peace keeping" toops there and President Nixon put the US military on alert worldwide. All that was going on as the Watergate scandal was unfolding and I was naive enough to think that maybe Nixon was trying to create a reason to declare some kind of emergency that would let him short-circuit the investigation...and I would never get home.

Oh, yeah, and disco music happened. It's 30 years later and disco still sucks!

Now, are you sorry you asked?