What Were You DOING This Month In 1969, If U Were Around Then? What Do You REMEMBER?

I was in 5th grade and amazed at the landing on the moon. Playing sports outside, swimming, staying out until the sun went down, not worrying about perverts kidnapping us. Playing flashlight hide and seek at night, shooting rats on the rivers with BB guns, lying about how much we knew about girls, etc.... In other words, a pretty carefree child with a lot of brothers and friends in the neighborhood in a small rural Midwest town with a 98% white population.......

I was working at home in the garden raising food, I was going on dates with my future husband, I was singing and laughing with other people, I was enjoying my life.

One thing for sure, I never got into drugs or any thing else the so called in crowd did, so what if they were stupid then as they are today, doesn't mean you follow these type people.

These are the weak type people, they can not control their wants and other things. Not the type to follow, not really, they lead down the path to a bad end.

If you had to point to a single year where America began its decline it would be 1969, for a plethora of reasons but most having to do with the pseudo-communist hippie counterculture taking hold of America's mainstream.

No, I was from Waukegan so going to Chicago was not very often, used to ride the CNW to Ravenswood? and walk to Wrigley, probably couldn't do that nowadays LOL

I got caught drinking beer with my friend at wrigley, his mom saw us on channel 9, we were in the boxes skipping school during the week :)

I had Pat "Whitey" Stapleton (defenseman on hawks) sign my cast, couldn't keep the smelly thing when it came off :)

I wish Icould listen to Jack Brickhouse and Lloyd Petit all day even now.

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I'm an invader to this thread because I was born only in '75. I grew up in the 80's, and in terms of my own experience, it seems like the farther I go back in my memory the better things were in the world. The 90's were nice, and the 80's was fun. I'm not so sure about the late 60's and 70s, though. Those seemed like angry, confused, awkward times. Just look at the clothing styles, like plaid bellbottoms, geez.

For that summer my brother and I attended Sacred Heart Boys Camp in Sharon, MA. Watched the moon landing on TV, fished, swam at the lake, go karts, track and field events, hikes in the woods, arts and crafts class, prayers at church, roller skating in the basement of the old building, we watched the movie One Million Years BC with Racael Welch, shot the BB gun and won a trophy for best shooter in the camp.

We played Hide the Flag and wore red or blue bandana's over at the girls camp. That was really fun. We went on bicycles rides. The camp bullies "the Valentine brothers" cut my brother off on the bike and he fell and hurt himself. So when we got back I tapped Valentine on the shoulder and when he turned around a SOCKED him square in the jaw. The camp directed saw this and called me over. When I explained myself he told me "someday you will be a real man of the family". Sacred Heart Boys camp was fun and I learned a lot that summer.

If you had to point to a single year where America began its decline it would be 1969, for a plethora of reasons but most having to do with the pseudo-communist hippie counterculture taking hold of America's mainstream.

I was 10, my brother 9. We built/staged a carnival in the backyard. Sold tickets. We had 7 or 8 “attractions “. Lots of energy and imagination. We were a good team.

Wow, cool story. How many years did you stay in Japan?


Sorry Truth, I was off running errands and didn't see your reply. We were there for 18 months (overseas tours are now longer-like 3 years, but at the time 18 months was standard). We liked it well enough to ask to stay, but that must have set off alarm bells and they gave us orders to Quantico, VA, and my husband wasn't even a Marine.

I was 5yrs old...And this was the year and month my parents split up....Three months later my evil stepfather entered our house and destroyed my childhood...13yrs later in August i beat him black and blue in our kitchen.

I was on a training mission to change the world--and ended up doing exactly that. As a result, hundreds (perhaps thousands) were affected and the course of human history took a decided turn.

When entering college in 1964, I had Fonzie-stlye hair and was considered "cool" for my generation. After dropping out because of life (marriage, child, home building, etc.), I returned to college in 1966 to finish my 4-year degree. I finally finished it in 1971 and was now a full-blown hippie type experiencing a variety of life-changing events that prepared me to challenge the "status quo".

Challenge it I did--big time--the whole system. I was privy to some of the most secretive gatherings you can even imagine, even here at GLP. I'm talking about rooms full of people who had CONTROL of the whole system and cursing God because it was obvious to them that not even God could stop them. The OBJECT they had in mind with a sedately evil intent was to show one side while they had nothing but disdain for the whole thing. The object was to destroy and make it appear that they were actually accomplishing something.

They still exist today. They have been destroying everything since. This "deep state" is so deep that it is all accepted as normal today in the institutions that were created under their care. Practically EVERYTHING having to do with children is controlled by them in evil ways. The depth of it is unimaginable. By fighting the system in 1971 onward, it revealed itself to me. I cannot count the times that attempts were made to compromise me. In the end (after releasing hundreds kids back to their homes), they had to fire me (for absolutely no cause since not a single kid had returned to the institution). I could go on and on about who these people are who had such control with such devious methods and purposes.

These very kinds of people are now being rooted out, it seems, by the Trump administration. There are thousands of know-it-all know-nothings who have control of situations that need to be freed from their control. It seems that thousands of kids are being freed from pedo-style control that has been going on SINCE 1969.

When I graduated college in 1971, my hair was all the way down my back, I was ready to go in your face if I deemed it necessary for truth, I FOUGHT HARD FOR YOUTH, though in the beginning it was just doing summer jobs with them and being encouraged to just take time and sit down under a tree and talk...about ANYTHING. In this way, I learned about EVERYTHING. I wasn't much older than they and related to everything they had to say. It was the true beginning of the "rap" movement". Just talking for the sake of talking and figuring things out. In the meantime, we collected trash, recyclables, did things for others, and were at the very CENTER of what was happening in the world and HEALING.

I saw the gradual change take place--was even a part of some of it, but I was mistaken for being one of them because of my long hair, education, in your face attitude and refusal to back down. I was invited to their power meetings. Big people. In big places like Senator Brookes office, Senator Kennedy's office, and others. The were powerful and assured--and evil to the core. I knew what I was up against and eventually had to face.

I eventually walked away from it all and went into ministry. I do ministry NOW, but MINISTRY really began in 1969. God was IN his people back then...everywhere. It was a wonderful time. The road was alive with people seeking truth in the most basic ways and with a full heart. It was an AMAZING TIME and amazing times are coming again...sooner than we might all think.