I remember 1968--or at least, I remember all the events you are talking about. Also, my mother was pregnant with my youngest sister who was born in November of that year, so it was an eventful year mixed up with bad things happening in the real world and my new baby sister who had some health problems and then later (possibly 1969), big blizzards that had the power out and, for some reason, no (or little?) heat.
I wasn't aware of much beyond the big news in the U.S., but back in those days, we kids talked about all that stuff on the bus stop in the way that we might have argued "Beatles or Monkees?" a few years before. I can remember having sort of a line-up like "Red Rover" with kids on either side marching towards the other chanting who they were going to vote for as if our votes even mattered. We all cast our votes at school, though, and they were counted at the end of the day.
Right now, I hadn't really thought about assassinations or whatever, and I hope nothing like that happens. Right now I feel somewhat disappointed and disenfranchised. I'm voting in the primary, but I may not be voting in the general election. I don't have bigger thoughts than that right now. I'm not a political junkie, but I care a lot about the things I care about. *g*
Anyway, IIRC, we are about the same age, but I'm not sure I would have been as aware of the big picture at that age as you might have been. I think I became more aware during the last year or so of Jimmy Carter's presidency when the news became a TV show.
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Date: 2008-03-31 08:12 am (UTC)I wasn't aware of much beyond the big news in the U.S., but back in those days, we kids talked about all that stuff on the bus stop in the way that we might have argued "Beatles or Monkees?" a few years before. I can remember having sort of a line-up like "Red Rover" with kids on either side marching towards the other chanting who they were going to vote for as if our votes even mattered. We all cast our votes at school, though, and they were counted at the end of the day.
Right now, I hadn't really thought about assassinations or whatever, and I hope nothing like that happens. Right now I feel somewhat disappointed and disenfranchised. I'm voting in the primary, but I may not be voting in the general election. I don't have bigger thoughts than that right now. I'm not a political junkie, but I care a lot about the things I care about. *g*
Anyway, IIRC, we are about the same age, but I'm not sure I would have been as aware of the big picture at that age as you might have been. I think I became more aware during the last year or so of Jimmy Carter's presidency when the news became a TV show.