In 1969

When I think back of being 21 years old in 1969 and of the long hair not only in women but in men in my generation, I think of the reason for it. Yes. It did start with the Beatles and all those musical groups but what it came to mean to us all was, "Why are you killing my high school and college classmates in Viet Nam?" and "Why did you draft them and send them over to Viet Nam to die in that War that no one declared and when no one attacked us here in the U.S. ?" So, many of my classmates and friends in high school and college(especially the ones that dropped out of college for any reason) were killed, maimed or driven insane or all three both in the U.S. and and in Viet Nam and in Canada or whatever country they went to.

So when you see poor men, rich men, or people who have a profession where they can grow their hair or beards and those men are over 40 or 50 please think about what they are saying to you with this hair statement. They are likely saying to you, "So many of us died and went insane back then. Don't ever let this kind of thing happen ever again unless the U.S. mainland is attacked!"

Of course in 9-11 we were attacked by Osama Bin Laden. But even then Osama Bin Laden was a CIA operative undercover agent in the 1980s in Afghanistan. So, even now can we believe what we are told about all this? I don't really know the answer to that. However, we were attacked. This is clear. Who we were attacked by is less clear.