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Thread #77597   Message #1386832
Posted By: hilda fish
24-Jan-05 - 03:18 AM
Thread Name: If You Were There...The Sixties
Subject: RE: If You Were There...The Sixties
And thanks for mentioning Jeff Crozier, that crazy boy. We lived near Seymour in victoria, australia, and he was the first real boyfriend I kissed! We went out to the big bad world together and remained friends until his very untimely death. Still miss that boy and so good to see him remembered. The Launching Place thing was an example of what Jeff would/could do. It's wonderful to hear all the things that were going on then in other parts of the world culturally, as we are given Woodstock (which I think is also great) as the definitive event whereas it was one of many. It seems to me the sixties (and early seventies) were perhaps ultimately about which side one polarized on in relation to involvement in Vietnam - am I right? The music, art, alternative society, although having a history that goes back centuries really, was a reflection of a discomfort and/or opposition to the might war machine which was exampled so clearly with western engagement in vietnam following the french.