I was a young person during the Vietnam, very, very much affected by events there. I was also a liberal, yup, going to college and thinking myself so cool one needed a space heater to stand next to me.
I really believed all this stuff. If nothing else I cast jaundiced brain upon that which is reported by the impartial journalists of tyhis era.
Got me a new kitten for Christmas...I gave to husband, rescue from SPCA. Name is Gerald.
We might be a bit too old for kittenhood, including 9 year old dog and three cats, ages 12,10 and 7. For Gerald lives in a Gerald world and all of the Gerald world is about him.
He considers me needing his help with cooking and prepping meals, he figures he should inspect all trash cans, and while he likes this Gerald world in our house, he does not think there is enough food in this environment, maybe on the planet earth, to feed Gerald.
He is driving all of us nuts and yet every morning I hear his pounce as he comes out from wherever he is to greet me with a big Gerald smile in the Gerald world.