American History 1968
An Indignant Generation." With all its disruptions and rage, the idea of black revolution was something many white Americans could at least comprehend, if not agree with. When rebellion seized their own children, however they were almost completely at a loss. A product of the posts war "Baby Boom," nurtured in affluence and concentrated in increasing numbers on college and university campuses. It was a generation marked by an unusual degree of political awareness and cultural alienation. Some shared with the beat writers and poets of the late fifties, a deep disillusionment with this status quo, a restless yearning for something more than a "realistic" conformity. Others had been aroused by the southern sit-in movement, "The first hint," wore a contemporary, "That there was a world beyond the campus that demanded some kind of personal response. "Not so much ideological as moral, in Jessica Mitford's words, "An Indignant Generation."Although an image of arrogance, even ruthlessness, had followed him from his early days as counsel to a Senate committee investigating labor racketeering, Robert Kennedy had shown a remarkable capacity to understand the suffering of others. More than this, he had demonstrated an untiring commitment
For six days prior to the first attack, waves of B-52's blasted enemy weapon sites, troop concentrations, and bunkers. Despite the tons of explosives rained down on the valley, the first helicopter assault on April nineteenth came under withering fire from antiaircraft batteries hidden in the surrounding hills. "There were white puffs of smoke everywhere," recalled a pilot who flew one of the earliest missions. "I mean, when I came in, the ground erupted right at me." On the first day of battle communist gunners brought down ten helicopters, including the first giant flying crane to be lost in the war. "I'll tell you this," said Major Charles Gilmer, executive officer of the first air cavalry's helicopter reconnaissance unit, " If you fly over that valley you have a good chance of getting killed." Certainly, as Paul Simon sang on his Gracdland album, "Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts." The talent is out there. On December 1979, Nixon was no longer president of the United States of America. to the welfare of those who had gotten little more than the crumbs of the Great American Banquet. In fact, Kennedy Appealed most strongly to precisely those groups most disaffected with American society in nineteen sixty-eight, they believed in him with a passion unmatched for any other national political figure, in part for what he had done, but also for the kind of man he was.
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Approximate Word count = 2112
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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