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To: Tom Trader who wrote (113)	12/24/1998 6:57:00 PM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (1) of 548

<Interesting thing is that I have a different view of the 60s than is portrayed today. Sure it was a period of turmoil and upheaval but it was also a period when the youth of America had a social conscience> I'm there with that. I recall colleges closing because of strikes against the war. I recall riots in Newark and going back to my school, where the Abbey housed National Guard troops, and seeing bullet holes in the walls of the buildings around us. I recall friends leaving for 'Nam and not coming back or perhaps coming back in such a fashion that you wondered if it was good that they did make it back. I also remember the 1950's, the Eisenhower Coffee Break, where America was happy and people left their doors unlocked across the nation. The sixties pitted people against each other on an ideological basis. It was unheard of to challenge authority. I remember black guys trying to jump me because I was a white guy in Newark or East Orange, I remember white guys trying to jump me because I had long hair. I recall a lot of prejudice along with the change in ideology. I recall a black friend slipping me a drug intended to kill me and leaving me for dead in a cemetery, just to impress his black friends. I awoke in the hospital some time later, I don't even recall how much later. I know a guy who came back from Asia and as far as I know to this day he still jumps under a table if he hears a siren. I recall teachers in college who tried to flunk us out simply because they thought people with long hair were a detriment to Society and had no rights. My college had a dress code in the mid sixties and it was loosened so one did not have to wear jackets and ties any longer. One Physics teacher flunked a kid because he insisted the kid had to wear a jacket and tie so the kid did. Over a bare chest, cutoffs and sneakers. That kid went on to become a Honors Graduate student in Physics. That entire period was a turning point.... _________________________ I'm getting wound up again and it's Christmas. Happy Holidays, those years were much too tumultuous for me to relive tonight.

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