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To: CondoleezzaProtege

1968 was a tumultuous year.

Tet

Prague uprising

MLK killed

RFK killed

Democrat Convention in Chicago

Riots

NK captured the USS Pueblo


5 posted on 08/13/2018 10:15:26 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: laplata

Yup August 1968. I had my orders for MACV cancelled before departure for reassignment to CONUS; presumably for a European assignment. Never left Newark, NJ.

The Red Menace was operating with the knowledge the presidency was in limbo given LBJ had decided to not run and the nation was in the midst of political turmoil.


6 posted on 08/13/2018 10:22:33 AM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: laplata
Yes. Anyone who has some loving nostalgia for the 60's wasn't there. It was a horrible time after the assassination of JFK, and has been downhill ever since.
 
7 posted on 08/13/2018 10:29:25 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.")
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To: laplata

And the mass murder of Vietnam civilians by American troops in 1968.


9 posted on 08/13/2018 10:30:15 AM PDT by granada
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