What's All the Fuss?

Hello most humans and others,

I have been hearing so much about the year 1969 lately. What is the deal? That seems like a long time ago to be worrying about it now, don't you think? Missy Linda, of course, talks about the personal side of that year when she graduated high school and got married a week later. She feels that is not a good idea for anyone, and it certainly catapulted her life in a direction that she had not intended nor imagined. I think that she secretly wished that she could be a civilly disobedient protester, but she just was not mature enough at that point in her life to buck authority. If there was anything that Missy Linda was taught at home, it was that girls do not defy authority figures.

I have heard her telling Tio Kane stories about watching scenes of the Vietnam War on the news every night and seeing the civil rights protests with the police dogs and the high-powered water hoses. She was not at Woodstock, and she was not the type of person to withstand manure and mud with no food or showers to hear music, no matter what the social significance. I do know where she was when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, but I don't really understand why that is such a big deal.

You people still mystify me!