Time Capsule....1967

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Some facts about 1967.


  • [FONT=&quot]Topping the Billboard Music Charts were “The Letter” by [/FONT][FONT=&quot]The Box Tops[/FONT][FONT=&quot] and “To Sir With Love” by Lulu[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Thurgood Marshall was sworn in to office as the first African-American justice of the U.S. Supreme Court[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Flying an X-15 experimental aircraft, Air Force Major William "Pete" Knight made the fastest flight of a powered aircraft, at a speed of Mach 6.72 (about 7,200 km/h) [/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Actress Elizabeth Taylor escaped death while in Sardinia for the filming of the movie “Boom!” Taylor had just stepped out of a trailer that served as her dressing room, when the vehicle's brakes and safety blocks failed, sending it over a 150-foot high embankment into the Mediterranean Sea[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Guerrilla leader Che Guevara was captured by the 2nd Battalion of the Bolivian Rangers. He would be executed a day after capture[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Boston Red Sox, 7 to 2, to win the World Series in the deciding 7th game. Bob Gibson, who had pitched the Cardinals to wins in Game 1 and Game 4, allowed only three hits in winning Game 7 (Oct 12)[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]The American Basketball Association, a challenger to the NBA, played its very first game[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]The Chicago Bulls, the 10th and newest franchise of the National Basketball Association, played their very first game (Oct 14)[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Stop the Draft Week" was launched in front of the induction centers of 30 American cities, by thousands Vietnam protesters. In Oakland, 600 demonstrators blocked the entrance of that city's center, including singer and activist [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Joan Baez[/FONT][FONT=&quot], who was one of 125 people arrested[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]The first "rock musical", Hair, premiered at the theater inside the Astor Library in New York City's East Village[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]The Soviet Union's Venera 4 probe became the first craft from Earth to land on Venus[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Walt Disney's 19th full-length animated feature [/FONT][FONT=&quot]The Jungle Book[/FONT][FONT=&quot], the last animated film personally supervised by Disney, was released [/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin filmed an unidentified animal near Bluff Creek, California, which has been claimed to be "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch"[/FONT]
 




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_(Be_Sure_to_Wear_Flowers_in_Your_Hair)


Released on May 13, 1967, the song was an instant hit. By the week ending July 1, 1967, it reached the number four spot on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, where it remained for four consecutive weeks.[SUP][6][/SUP] Meanwhile, the song rose to number one in the UK Singles Chart,[SUP][1][/SUP] and most of Europe. The single is purported to have sold over seven million copies worldwide.[SUP][7][/SUP] In Central Europe, young people adopted "San Francisco" as an anthem for freedom, and it was widely played during Czechoslovakia's 1968 Prague Spring uprising.
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On July 5, 1967 I raised my hand and was sworn into the Army.....if I'd have known in advance what the drill sergeants had in store for me for the next eight weeks I'd have probably run like hell outta the room. :)

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IKE said:
On July 5, 1967 I raised my hand and was sworn into the Army....
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I almost went into the Army myself in 1967. That year was a bit of a turning point for me. That summer I was just finishing up the last few courses for my A.A. degree at St. Petersburg Junior College. I was working part time, living at home, and taking "general studies" which meant I was just looking for easy courses that I could skate by in and keep a student deferment. But that was coming to an end and Vietnam was going stronger than ever. I didn't have money to go on to four year university. Junior College was cheap back then. $60 bucks a semester for full time up to 19 hours.


I had been working for minimum wage at a place named "The Beer Mart". And I had been talking to the Army recruiter who occasionally came in for a six pack on the way home from work. One of my buddies from High School had gone in the Army the year before, and I was leaning that way myself. I figured I could finish my four year degree on the GI bill when I got out.

Then one day a work I got a phone call from the hospital saying that my mother had had a heart attack. A neighbor had noticed her face down in the driveway and called an ambulance. Long story short she lasted about a week or so in the hospital before she had another massive heart attack and died. My aunt and uncle came down from New Jersey that covered the hospital bills plus help out with the arrangements. I gave all her clothes and stuff to Goodwill, called the local auction and they picked up the furniture and household stiff. It was all cheap junk and after they sold it my cut was $12 bucks. The house wasn't much either. She owed as much or more on it than it was worth so I just let the bank have it.


What she did do though was maintain a $3,000 whole life policy. That's about $23,000 in today's money. I took that and the $69 bucks a month in Social Security survivors benefit and went on up to the University of Florida and used it to finish my four year degree. Once again I was just looking for an easy curriculum that I could skate along in and keep a student deferment.

Two years later in August of 1969 I graduated pretty much flat broke with a B.A. in Geography. Vietnam was still going strong. I lost my student deferment and almost immediately got my "Notice to report for induction" from my local draft board. A lot of draftees had been coming home in body bags so I beat it on down to the local Air Force recruiter figuring that would be a lot safer. He got me out of the draft by having me sign up for four years with the Air Force. I still ended up in Vietnam, but at least I wasn't out humping an M-16 and a 50 lbs ruck through the rice paddies hoping my next step wasn't going to be on a trip wire to a booby trap.

Here I am. US Air Force Medical Service Specialist (90230) Internal Medicine Ward, 483rd USAF Hospital Cam Rahn Bay, Republic of Vietnam 1970.

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In 1967 I was married a year and my Husband was in the service. Fortunately he never went to Viet Nam. They were horrible days filled with worries.
 
1967 is when I came out of a dark cave. I spent my junior and senior years of high school on a small air force base in Belgium. That's where my dad was stationed and our family lived off-base in the community (which we just about always did). My brother and I were the only teenagers, and we took classes via correspondence by mail from the University of Nebraska. There was a son next door who was about my brother's age and they did things together. The wife next door spoke German so she and my mom would get together. The woman spent time in prison because of being part of the resistance during WWII. Women did not fare well in prison and because of that when she became pregnant with her son and daughter she had to spend almost the entire time confined in bed in order to come safely to term.

There were no dances or dating or any high school sweetheart. Hardly any television. No base movie theater or library, etc. But I was so grateful for the private radio stations in the English Channel, otherwise, only government sponsored radio programs were allowed. Once or twice a month we'd go visit a large base in Germany where I could buy some magazines or music albums. The service men that worked under my dad did come to our house to spend time. They were older and more mature than I was and I didn't really interact with them much, being very shy for one thing. There was that one exception, though, and somehow he got himself invited for dinner. But as I mentioned in another post, that relationship didn't go so well with my dad.

But then in December of 1966 my dad retired and we returned to Hawaii. I should have been happy, right? But unfortunately it was too little, too late, and I ended up finishing high school at a girl's school for another year and a half, even though I was already eighteen. The correspondence school didn't cut it for the requirements to graduate. But it was good in that I made two life-long friends during that time. I graduated in 1968 and went on to college.
 
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