The Woodstock Generation

[UntilTheWholeWorldHears]

Wasn’t that also the last generation of the last big revival ( the Jesus movement) in our country?

 

[DWB]

When I was a young adult, before I was saved, I had always wished I had been a teenager in the "age of love". I am now so grateful to God to have been born when I was.

I think a lot of us younger than the Woodstock group wished that same thing. I know I did, but am very grateful to have missed the Vietnam War. As far as the drugs go, I think there were just as many or more in the 70's.

 

[Tall Timbers]

I think a lot of us younger than the Woodstock group wished that same thing. I know I did, but am very grateful to have missed the Vietnam War. As far as the drugs go, I think there were just as many or more in the 70's.

I think the 60s and 70s were pretty much one Era that lasted until the later 70s when the country was experiencing crippling inflation thanks to The peanut farmer who should have never been President.

 

[Baby Yoda]

I prefer to listen to classical music now.

I do too, in my car.

 

[Umbrella Girl]

I think the 60s and 70s were pretty much one Era that lasted until the later 70s when the country was experiencing crippling inflation thanks to The peanut farmer who should have never been President.

I have very fond memories of the 70s because that was the decade of my childhood, having been born in 68…

 

[Wally]

Hemi Cudas, Alan Parsons Project, Loggins & Messina, Arab Israeli War, parents' divorce, Watergate, end of Vietnam involvement, Bicentennial, move to PA, Amtrak, Conrail, Jaws, IH Scout SS II, Star Wars, Graduation.

It was a busy decade for me.

 

[JoyJoyJoy]

As far as the drugs go, I think there were just as many or more in the 70's.

And even more today.
Was the 60s the time when drug use became 'acceptable'? Or were new drugs were introduced?

 

[Wally]

And even more today.
Was the 60s the time when drug use became 'acceptable'? Or were new drugs were introduced?

I'd say the 60's was experimentation and introduction, 70's it became more "mainstream".
BSA and schools were getting more vigorous with anti-drug programs in the early-mid 70's

 

[cheeky200386]

I'd say the 60's was experimentation and introduction, 70's it became more "mainstream".
BSA and schools were getting more vigorous with anti-drug programs in the early-mid 70's

Yes! I remember the DARE program popular in the 90's and the "This is your brain on drug" ads in the 80's.

 

[Tall Timbers]

And even more today.
Was the 60s the time when drug use became 'acceptable'? Or were new drugs were introduced?

LSD became popular in the 60s, and was legal up to some point. Heroin had been around for a while. Marijuana was very popular along with hashish. Amphetamines was popular. Cocaine didn't start gaining traction until the 70s.

I think Drug use and the whole free love culture was a reaction from the youth who faced the meat grinder that was the Vietnam war. During my high school years the military draft lottery was always there waiting for you. The year I became eligible for the draft was the year that they did the lottery but didn't draft anyone due to the phase out of the draft. The daily casualty numbers were always high and always on the front page of newspapers and were horrifying. Most believed we shouldn't even be involved and many didn't understand why we were there in the first place. It wasn't a pleasant time to be an American youth.

I think one of the greatest tragedies from that Era was the misplaced anger towards the poor souls who were drafted and sent to Viet Nam. Upon their return they were treated so poorly. The first time I visited the Viet Nam War memorial in D.C. and saw all those names I was overwhelmed.

 

[cheeky200386]

LSD became popular in the 60s, and was legal up to some point. Heroin had been around for a while. Marijuana was very popular along with hashish. Amphetamines was popular. Cocaine didn't start gaining traction until the 70s.

I think Drug use and the whole free love culture was a reaction from the youth who faced the meat grinder that was the Vietnam war. During my high school years the military draft lottery was always there waiting for you. The year I became eligible for the draft was the year that they did the lottery but didn't draft anyone due to the phase out of the draft. The daily casualty numbers were always high and always on the front page of newspapers and were horrifying. Most believed we shouldn't even be involved and many didn't understand why we were there in the first place. It wasn't a pleasant time to be an American youth.

I think one of the greatest tragedies from that Era was the misplaced anger towards the poor souls who were drafted and sent to Viet Nam. Upon their return they were treated so poorly. The first time I visited the Viet Nam War memorial in D.C. and saw all those names I was overwhelmed.

I agree, it's awful how those vets were treated.

 

[Matthew6:33]

I think one of the greatest tragedies from that Era was the misplaced anger towards the poor souls who were drafted and sent to Viet Nam.

I think "Rambo I" was a good portrayal of how they were treated. Sill makes me a little sad to this day. Not exactly a Christian movie though lol.

 

[Bethlehem57]

Hemi Cudas, Alan Parsons Project, Loggins & Messina, Arab Israeli War, parents' divorce, Watergate, end of Vietnam involvement, Bicentennial, move to PA, Amtrak, Conrail, Jaws, IH Scout SS II, Star Wars, Graduation.

It was a busy decade for me.

Me too! Married n 1975. Worked for Pacific Telephone and Telegraph, moved to Elizabeth City, NC on a Coast Guard base. The Pasquotank River was red! Talk about culture shock! Northern California never had rain in the summer, no humidity and no thunderstorms!

I didn’t know I was homesick untll I was struggling to breathe! Humidity and bugs so large they dented the car!

We‘re still married, 48 years last week! Still love this man!

 

[Carl]

I was old enough but was busy. I enlisted in 62 and got out in 65. Then I worked as TV repair then went to Pontiac Motors for one season. Then in 1967 I started college. Diploma in 1977. Durin this time spent my summers making spending money for college.

I remember the Jesus movement in the 60s. Although not a Christian thought time better spent there then playing woodstock. My neighbors on the farm were Church of God. Unfortunately the boy spent his time chasing girls rather than witnessing. So that is the church I thought about.

I never really talked about the woodstock generation. I just thought they were lost because their focus was not on life.

 

[Chris]

Satan saw the Israel rebirth miracle of 1948. I think he knew his time was short so he helped jump start the Sexual Revolution with drugs, music, and booze that really went into overdrive in the 1960s. We’ve been paying the price ever since with divorces, murders, overdoses, abortions, HIV/AIDS, etc. When we decided to run with the devil we will pay the price that is for sure. All of this is contrary to what God has instructed us to do. Like Adam and Eve, we did it to ourselves.

 

[seated with Christ]

In 1960, I was without God in the world, but I detected a change in spiritual atmosphere in America, there was the advent of LSD, free love, long haired band form England, Woodstock; a great number of youth was rebelling and experiencing unchecked sin. It was an attack of Satan upon America, IMHO.

I used to watch Woodstock when I got home from school every day.

 

[seated with Christ]

Watched the news report on Woodstock, that is.

 

[BlessedBeliever]

Just to share my two cents, having gone through the 60s and 70s….there was also a big Jesus Movement sweeping the country with a special awakening for Bible prophecy thanks to Hal Lindsay’s Late Great planet Earth, published in 1970. I was one who came to Christ and committed to following Him while reading that book (given to me by my best HS friend who became a believer a few years earlier).

Over the years I have been amazed at how many other People about my age also shared how that book was influential in leading them to Christ. I guess God was using that book to fill a void that Woodstock was unable to fill.

 

[rks7777]

While I agree with a lot of what is in this article I don’t really understand the writers issue with Jimi Hendrix playing of the national anthem. He played the anthem on the electric guitar an instrument not conducive to our anthem. I have a Christian brother who is an award winning blues guitarist. Every so often he will play the national anthem. He does a great job with it and it sounds very similar to Hendrix version. The anthem on the electric guitar is not everyone’s cup of tea and I understand that. But to make a correlation between what Hendrix did and Collin Kaepernick’s knee taking protests is just wrong. Hendrix was certainly a troubled soul with many issues. But he was an iconic and trail blazing guitarist that was playing the anthem on his choosen instrument.