These years were crazy both at home and in the larger world. Vietnam was in full swing with protests, the draft, and the draft dodgers. The music scene was exploding with Woodstock and the new louder and dissonant sounds of rock. People started to wear very bright colors. For the first time girls wore miniskirts and blue jeans. Guys started to grow their hair and wear wide bell bottoms, and shoes with high heels. Books were coming out that started conversations about women’s liberation and individualism like I’m Okay, You’re Okay. The assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr, and the deaths of well-known music idols like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin made headlines. At home, Dad was getting drunk more often. Drugs had entered the house in the form of Marijuana and LSD. Kent and Brad had taken up smoking cigarettes. Lisa was now going to school. My Grandparents and Uncle visited only once a year and you could see they were getting older as we all were.

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