Yep, it was different then. Of course we didn't have cell phones with raging social media, and I don't recall my parents telling me how entitled I was, nor did I win "participation trophies" for playing ball. ADHD wasn't the issue of the month, either. We did have cars and were a bit girl crazy in high school, but there wasn't so much violence among people. Maybe Vietnam changed a lot of American attitudes, especially politically, morally and in education, and in the wide spread use and acceptance of drugs?

I don't know. My teen years were happy times, positive times, idealistic times. There was certainly less fear "in the air", and I had a pretty good sense of freedom rather than what I am feeling these days (repression, polarization of the we/they kind, and a decline in ethics, morality and just plain common sense). But that's just me.

Harvey