Saw a good movie on Amazon Prime, about Woodstock, with a LOT, building up to it and backstage, in the woods/camps etc, that I’d never seen before.

 ‘Woodstock-Three Days That Defined a Generation’. 

And it’s kinda strange, how many people that were my age, and younger, weren’t in/of that ‘generation’.

Sure, they were about the same age, listened to a lot of the same music and had many shared experiences, BUT, many, or most of my classmates belonged to and remained in the generation before the one I related to. They never had long hair, never rebelled against the Establishment that wanted to send me, and other guys my age, to fight in a stupid, illegal war in Viet Nam. 

Not gonna go all historical/philosophical on you, BUT, in just 1968 we saw, MLK shot down, and Bobby Kennedy, after his brother John, years earlier, and the Draft Lottery, and weekly reports on numbers killed in Viet Nam, on both sides. And friends sent to prison for pot possession.

Basically, we found that ‘America wasn’t what we were taught it was’.

And then came Woodstock, a defining moment that drew us, as in ‘us vs them’ together, whether we were among the 400,000 who actually made it to Yasgar’s Farm, or just wished we had.

‘Woodstock, Three Days That Defined a Generation’, (of ‘Peace and Love’), by those who were there, really brought back the memories and feelings, from SO long ago, that made so many of us who we are, today. A unique generation, unlike those before or since.