Earliest Memories of the World Outside (was Forcing Kids To Watch History Made)

[aaoconnor2002 <aaoconnor2002@yahoo.com>]

I was a child of the sixties, growing up in the San Francisco Bay 
Area.  I remember the hippie movement quite well because everytime we 
had relatives visiting from out of the area my dad would take them to 
Berkeley and Haight-Ashbury to see the "crazy kids".  Mom would 
always double check to make sure the car doors were locked.  It 
didn't stop her from letting me go into Berkeley all the time with my 
friends a few years later when we were in high school.

Like Amy I really don't have any memories of the Vietnam War.  
Looking back I'm sure my parents were monitoring my television 
exposure to the war also.  The one thing I can remember vividly was 
laying on the living room floor watching television, hearing my 
mother go to answer the front door and then realizing she was crying 
and hugging some man in uniform.  It was her baby brother (an uncle I 
had never met) and he was home for good.  Mom hardly ever cried so I 
knew that was big.

Audrey