There is nothing more tragic than to sleep through a revolution.” Martin Luther King, Jr. 1966
I must admit, I slept through a revolution.
The National Archives’ headline reads, “1968: A Year of Turmoil and Change”. Then the first sentence boldly asserts, “1968 was a turning point in U.S. history, a year of triumphs and tragedies, social and political upheavals, that forever changed our country.”
I remember 1968: Apollo 8 orbiting the moon; the riots that destroyed parts of Washington, D.C. and then in Chicago at the Democratic convention; the Tet Offensive in Viet Nam indicated that the U.S. was not going to win the unwinnable war; the Civil Rights Bill passed that ended discrimination in buying and selling homes; and the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. A lot more important events happened but most people saw them as a continuation of the radical events of the ‘60’s and that, sooner or later, things would be back to normal – like they were in the 50’s. (to continue)
