What 1968 Was
1968 is over and I'm trying to figure out what kind of year it was. The worst year and the best year. The year America broke and also the year it reached the Moon.
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Independence Day, Space Age
July Fourth, 1968. The year is half over. We've survived Tet, we've survived King, we've survived Kennedy. And the space program is still going.
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June Again
Robert Kennedy was shot two nights ago and died yesterday morning. I can't stop thinking about the phone call to Jackie Kennedy they must have made.
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April
Martin Luther King was shot and killed in Memphis yesterday. I don't have words for this.
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The World Is on Fire
The war is everything in the papers right now. The Tet Offensive started last week and nobody sounds certain about anything anymore.
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The Year Everything Will Happen
It's a new year and I think 1968 is going to be decisive. Either we get back on track for a Moon landing, or the goal of before 1970 becomes impossible.
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