
H/T-WRSA@GAB
Hmmm, 1965...

I remember the spring tornado outbreak that tore through town and killed a handful of people and had me in an uncle's basement riding out the mayhem...
I remember newscasts talking about someplace called Vietnam I didn't know squat about but my father seemed interested in...
History taught me about LBJ getting troops on the ground in Vietnam for the first time and quickly escalated...all the proto-hippie protests over this that and everything ramped up...civil rights stuff raging...Humpty Dumpty Humphrey VP...LBJ relaxes immigration laws...Twins lose to stinking Dodgers in 7th game of WS...LBJ gets voting rights act signed (that would not have happened without GOP support since so many Dixiecrats were upset with it)...oh, and the nefarious war on poverty bill gets signed into law fulfilling his demonic great society pledge and blowing the welfare state into plaid hyper-drive!
Yeah, that year sucked!!! How little an innocent little knew! His nation was pushed harder down into totalitarian despair and nobody said anything about it...
Well, not that I recall...not in terms a child could understand...
We were force-fed a national expiration date to be determined by future despots...
