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| Elvis, The King, having a great time in the Army |
Thinking about the old America my parents grew up in. It seems like a dream now. It must have been so much fun to have been alive then. Oh, sure, doubtless there were all sorts of bad things going on back in those days. There always are. But compared to today? I'd take my chances with...what? Polio? The vaccine came out in the mid-Fifties and most people didn't catch it anyway. World War III? They worried about it, but it didn't happen. The bad stuff that has led to now really got going with the assassination of Kennedy and the Viet Nam War. So cycle me repeatedly through the decade from the end of the Korean War to the killing of Kennedy, basically the Nifty Fifties and Camelot.
Call it Groundhog Decade.
