Cover your head with hair

[MoseyWalker]

This is the beginning of a history lesson for those who don't know what life used to be like or how people used to feel.

It wasn't about hair. It wasn't about looking "good".

It was about something that meant more.

Something that meant more.

Do you even understand the concept?

something more?

there was a war.

there were people by the millions who disagreed with that war.

there was a corrupt government.

it was revealed.

today. no one seems to care.

Just don't take my electronic toys away!

I am disgusted.

[Name removed]

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[longship]

2. Why does somebody who posts their mind have to be stoned?

There was a time when people cared about what others think.

Myself, I understand MoseyWalker's train of thought.
No. I am not stoned, either.

:kick:ed

[T Town Jake]

3. LOL - I see you didn't TRULY live through that time on this basis alone:

the vast majority of us grew our hair out for three simple reasons in the real world in that time and place:

1. The cool guys were doing it.

2. The girls loved the cool guys.

3. The thing speaks for itself, as the Romans were wont to say (res ipsa loquitur, and all that...).

As for "there were people by the millions who disagreed with that war," I gotta say: Yup. And MOST of them disagreed with it only in the sense that they thought MORE force, and overwhelming at that, should be used to bring Hanoi to heel just like we'd done with them there Nazis and Japanese during Dubya Dubya Two. See Election Results, Presidential, 1972, if you doubt that. Tricky was overwhelmingly embraced by the American people, right up until the time that it was proven beyond doubt that he was a corrupt bastard with criminal tendencies. And then he wasn't. Embraced, that is.

Ah, sixties/seventies nostalgia ain't what it used to be: It's getting too easy to tell apart those of us who actually plodded our way through it as actual living, breathing young'ens, and those who've seen the protest scene on the Washington Mall in "Forrest Gump" a few too many times - and imagine, after a few Scotch & Sodas or Gin & Tonics, that they were really there, in spirit....(snicker)...

Puh-leeze.

[acmejack]

4. Why change dicks in the middle of a screw?

reelect nixxon in seventy two!

and they did...

On edit, in these parts you could get the crap beat out of you for having long hair, you damn sure Wouldn't get served a lot of places. You wouldn't get hired except in construction trades or liberal places near the campus, it might have made a statement but it also really pissed off the establishment people at least in this neck of the woods.

Oh yeah, when they got you into the service the DI's liked to make it extra welcoming for the guys who sunburned bad where they could tell they had worn long hair. I was warned by my Dad of all people (a twenty year man, so I cut it off and got a tan on my neck (but they were mean as hell to everybody).