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

I was 19 years old and a real hippie chick. I was at Woodstock. At the time we would refer to ourselves as Freaks. We dressed differently in bell bottoms and had long hair and smoked lots of weed and did hallucinogenics. I was very active in protests to stop the war. I really believed we would. That this was a turning point in time. A new time of world peace. My uncle gave me a deck of Tarot cards and I was reading cards for everyone. I remember getting ready to go out and meet my Freak friends when my mother said "come here and watch this with me. We are on the moon! We landed a spaceship and man is walking on the moon" Nah I dais I have to go out now. I didn't even think twice about it. I was going on my own trip to the Moon! The thing about Woodstock is that I realized we were not Freaks at all. there were hundreds of thousands of us. The press had led us to believe we were in a minority. I believe they are doing this to us now. That there are millions and millions of "conspiracy theorists" That is the reason they want to control information.

I was living in a Frat house that summer. Preparing to move into a campus dorm building. The vets returning from Vietnam were starting the "anti-war" movement on campus. The C.I.A. had their "Project Vietnam" going where they brought male Vietnamese to train them on how it would be like to live in America, we all knew that war was a loss. I remember watching the Moon landing on T.V. It was interesting that the rocks they brought back had a high percentage of "pure"
titanium in them. Here on Earth Titanium is only present as an oxide and there is a costly process involved in purifying it so it can be used. On the Moon it is pure already. I have Asperger's Syndrome and had written my paper on conceptional symbolism the fall of 1968 [ Return to Babel ].
I remember reading about Woodstock in up state New York.
The music on the radio was interesting and timely. Dr. Alvin Coox of the history department was the on campus C.I.A. recruiter. Dr. Love was campus president at San Diego State College back then. Interesting and involved times. In early 1961 after a meeting with Admiral Zumwalt I had been asked to review Chamorro, the tongue of the first natives of Guam, as a possible military code language for our American military,
I was only 12 at that time. I turned 21 in July of 1969.
Our MGM star Judy garland had died that June and there were riots in New York.

5 years old, sleeping in our cooler basement with my little German Shepherd puppy who I still love with all my heart & soul & still miss profoundly.

It was the summer after my first year in school, Kindergarten. I was 5 years old, but I remember A LOT. Firstly, I was already working, helping my Dad @ work, cleaning machine parts, along with my 2 older brothers. I would earn $4 a day, a LOT for a 5 year old.
I remember we got a new Ford that summer & drove it to Fla. that June. I remember wanting to rent a dune buggy on the beach, my older brother had just gotten his driver's license, but my Mom & Dad insisted we couldn't. I remember coming home & watching "the moon shot" with my Dad & brothers in our family room. We trusted what was being fed to us, & we took them at their word. My beloved father was a VERY proud WWII Vet & ESPECIALLY trusted the gov't., "Uncle" Walter (Cronkite) & the CB$ NEW$. They would NEVER lie to us, so we thought.
I remember it was a particularly hot August & I was allowed to steer our electric lawnmower for the first time, which I thought was thrilling. I remember listening & singing along to "Good Morning Starshine" on the radio, sung by 'Oliver.'
2nd week of August started out with helping my Dad hang flowery wallpaper in our bathroom. I very vaguely remember the manson killings being on the news a LOT then. It put a pall on the 'moon landing', for sure. Everytime I hear the Nilsson song, "Everybody's Talkin At Me," it reminds me of that strangeness we all felt that summer, the killings both domestic & in Vietnam, where things had reached a crescendo the summer before. The tv news invariably would start with the latest hero U.S. Soldier casualties & aircraft being shown napalming everything & I remember each week watching the news shows showing bloody bandaged G.I.'s being airlifted by Chinook helicopters near Saigon.

I returned to the states after a tour of Viet Nam in 1969.

Yes I really am that old. ;-)

a carnival for Muscular Distrophy? I remember doing one but don't remember what year that was ... amazed at some of the donations from neighborhood stores

Who bought a mood ring in 1975 and who did you buy it for?

Who bought a mood ring in 1975 and who did you buy it for?

It was the summer after my first year in school, Kindergarten. I was 5 years old, but I remember A LOT. Firstly, I was already working, helping my Dad @ work, cleaning machine parts, along with my 2 older brothers. I would earn $4 a day, a LOT for a 5 year old.
I remember we got a new Ford that summer & drove it to Fla. that June. I remember wanting to rent a dune buggy on the beach, my older brother had just gotten his driver's license, but my Mom & Dad insisted we couldn't. I remember coming home & watching "the moon shot" with my Dad & brothers in our family room. We trusted what was being fed to us, & we took them at their word. My beloved father was a VERY proud WWII Vet & ESPECIALLY trusted the gov't., "Uncle" Walter (Cronkite) & the CB$ NEW$. They would NEVER lie to us, so we thought.
I remember it was a particularly hot August & I was allowed to steer our electric lawnmower for the first time, which I thought was thrilling. I remember listening & singing along to "Good Morning Starshine" on the radio, sung by 'Oliver.'
2nd week of August started out with helping my Dad hang flowery wallpaper in our bathroom. I very vaguely remember the manson killings being on the news a LOT then. It put a pall on the 'moon landing', for sure. Everytime I hear the Nilsson song, "Everybody's Talkin At Me," it reminds me of that strangeness we all felt that summer, the killings both domestic & in Vietnam, where things had reached a crescendo the summer before. The tv news invariably would start with the latest hero U.S. Soldier casualties & aircraft being shown napalming everything & I remember each week watching the news shows showing bloody bandaged G.I.'s being airlifted by Chinook helicopters near Saigon.






I was 2

I was getting ready to start kindergarten.