Woodstock

It is the 40th anniversary of the legendary concert, Woodstock...hundreds of thousands of people gathered in upper New York to, well, come together and have a groovy time...the fact is...

the country was extremely polarized by the Viet Nam War and this was another protest by the young generation of the northeast...as the war was being battled half-way across the world, the only way to show your disgust, and band together with kids who felt the same way you did, was find some festivals like this one...the west coast had the Monterrey Festival, but just didn't have the impact that Woodstock had...besides the San Francisco area was all protest...of course, to get your mind off the war, drugs seemed to be one of the outlets...for the young minds of us all...you either may die by the bullet or by the drug of the time...and then the government got involved...with the police of the cities trying to disband the gatherings...

Really, the country was in disarray because of the LBJ administration...and the youth wanted no part of it...thus, things like Woodstock...a grand experience for an awful time...

Let us never forget...