Each era in American history has factors that distinctively define the attitudes and emotions of that particular period. In August 1969, thousands of young adults gathered in White Lake, NY, for what would come to be known as "Woodstock." Gene Ira Katz asserted, "The woefully understaffed and poorly planned extravaganza may be remembered as the most successful fiasco in the history of entertainment" ("14850 Magazine" 7).

The Woodstock Festival of Music and Art was advertised as "3 days of peace and music" and soon enough underground radio personalities were publicizing this as a "free concert" ("14850 Magazine" 7). The white dove, illustrating the overwhelming emergence of peace in home front affairs, as well as international affairs and the guitar, representing free expression for what many Americans

or their land and it focused mostly on improving the lives of migrant farm workers. Struggles like these transpired in the fifties and sixties and escalated when many Americans wanted peace and equality.

The thousands that gathered came to release tensions, feel the music, and come to peace. Terry H. Anderson remarks, "For many participants, the growing sense of community turned this rock festival into an unforgettable counterculture experience" (278). The "hippie culture" exemplified a society as one, there were no superiors or minorities. Women were treated as equals to men and blacks were treated equivalently to whites. This sense of unity demonstrated the attitudes and feelings in the "three days of peace and music" at Woodstock.

longed for, were symbols that came to represent Woodstock.

It still was not enough for the hippie culture. They wanted peace and finally in 1975 all troops came home with damage psychologically and physically. Damage that will never parish from their minds. 58,000 American deaths, 200,000 Americans wounded, and 1 million Vietnamese deaths are some facts that are instilled in the minds of so many Americans from that period. Because of the major psychological effects that burdened these soldiers, 62,000 of them commit suicide (class notes).

The hippie culture disturbed those that were still conforming to the government and were outraged by the nudity, sex and drugs. Anderson says, "Hippie culture was having an impact on the idea of revolution, for cultural activists began talking about the development of a Youth Nation committed to nonviolence concerned about one another" (279). This culture was engulfing many youths into a life of "sex, drugs, and rock and roll."

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