Don't leave out Vietnam. Plenty of us can also remember live fucking news shots of Vietnam. We wore MIA bracelets with the names of our friends' big brothers or cousins or uncles, and sometimes their fathers.
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I just said that too. We had a teacher who would have episodes - they used to call them “flashbacks” in class and he’d jump behind the desk. It was terrible. Heartbreaking and scary. And almost everyone you knew had lost a brother or son. Also don’t forget the hostage crisis or gas shortages!
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Not to mention the Cold War. I was in college when perestroika happened and the Wall came down. Imagine what being a Boomer kid must have been like at the height of the Cold War. 😬
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Like at least we didn't have to depend on our desks to save us from nuclear annihilation.
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