Counterculture: The Summer Of Love, Woodstock, and Wounded Hippies

LuckyBogey's Blog ^ | August 17, 2009 | LuckyBogey

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Obama Healthcare Logo Looks Like An Acid Trip! The logo makes a rather celestial plea for Obama’s health care reform plan. A stylized caduceus rises ethereally from the fields of Obama. Three heavenly stars grace its crown, while a faint bubble trembles above the silhouttes of expectant Americans. If Uncle Sam himself were tripping, this is probably what he would see...

“Santana is going to bring a lot of joy, light, peace and happiness into a place that is basically based on illusion,” “We have to triumph, because we’re bringing the opposite of what Las Vegas is built on.”

In the summer of 1967, thousands of young people from across the country flocked to San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury district to join in the hippie experience, only to discover that what they had come for was already disappearing. By 1968 the celebration of free love, music, and an alternative lifestyle had descended into a maelstrom of drug abuse, broken dreams, and occasional violence...

For the next year, according to Brinkley’s Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War, he’d wake up screaming, thinking he was back on the Mekong Delta: “He was always in combat, in an emergency situation,” said his former wife, who died in 2006. “He was saving men. It was never anything about him – it was saving the boat and saving the men.”

...It was the era of Rock & Roll and more people turned up for James Brown at the yearly USO extravaganza, than for Bob Hope. The AFRVN radio networking was grooving from the Delta to the DMZ. Accompanying the music of the era was a new mood towards the war and a lack of faith in the objectives became more common among the servicemen than ever before...

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Obama Healthcare Logo Looks Like An Acid Trip -- Bob Dylan Unknown Again -- Carlos Santana In Las Vegas -- 69' Woodstock (LIFE Magazine Classic) Video -- PBS Summer of Love -- John Kerry's New Deal -- VFW (While Woodstock Rocked, GIs Died) -- Vietnam War veteran proud after breaking 35 years of silence)