The mid sixties brought protests to college campuses, integration to high schools, hippies to the west, Woodstock to New York, and free love and illegal drugs to anyone who wanted it. There isn't any event that changed America like Vietnam did and while the United States won every battle in fought during that war it lost the war itself and we lost tremendously at home too. God was kicked out of the schools and drugs became front and center in the hearts and minds of many of the young. We've been fighting that part of the war ever since and getting our butts kicked in the process.
Personally I never took part in the protests, , never partook of any of the drugs, volunteered for two tours of duty in Vietnam, and got through school with my faith in God stronger than when I went in. Still, the war had a profound effect on my life, and probably not all in a good way.
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