Picture of Petraeus and wife in Better Times

West Point graduate David Petraeus with his future wife, Holly Knowlton, daughter of West Point superintendent Lieutenant General William Knowlton, on June 5, 1974. From Bettmann/Corbis.

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1974 was a very important year for me too. My son was born that year and I was then 26 and married for the first time myself. I miss the 1970s a lot.  The world sort of still made some sense then. For me, everything after about 1973 always seemed like I was living in the future in some ways. So, photos like this of people happy in the 1970s is very nostalgic  for  me.