It's November, 1972. Where Are You?

[Longgrain]

Nixon had just been re-elected...

Vietnam was still going on...

Getting milk was more important to me than Watergate

Me, I wasn't even six-months-old yet...

[Left Is Write]

1. I was 6 years old and in Miss Connolly's first grade class at

Sioux Trail Elementary school.

[NVMojo]

2. I was attending an American High School in Germany and protesting ...

...got my butt whooped too as dad was one of top ranking hacks on the Army Post ...just returned from Viet Nam ...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. Studying Japanese in a 12-month intensive program

and desperately in unrequited love with another resident of my dorm. Voting absentee for McGovern.

[flamingyouth]

4. In preschool at Haller Lake Methodist Church

And watching my mother completely freak out when Nixon got re-elected.

In my preschool, we did funny, early '70s things like make ecology signs and sing Cat Stevens songs. :D

[tigereye]

11. carrying a hippie suede purse, wearing giant bell bottoms

and unfortunately, obsessed with Donnie Osmond. Luckily my taste has improved since then.

Hey FY! What's going on?

[mike_c]

5. Winsted, Connecticut...

...sweating the draft. I'd dropped out of high school in Virginia, gone to Connecticut, and had cannon-fodder written all over me.

on edit: in my defense, there was a woman involved, and I was in the habit of doing most of my thinking with the wrong part of my anatomy in those days....

[SHRED]

6. Sophomore

High School wondering about becoming 18 in a couple of years and Vietnam.

[steely]

30. Ditto

I seemed to be just waking up to the reality of it all - I had a cool grandmom who offered to pay my way into canada.

[ladjf]

7. I was the band director at the University of Alabama.

[Orsino]

8. Fifth grade...

...and just starting to realize that Nixon was *not* the one.

[Rocinante]

9. Senior in high school

Was Vietnam on my mind back then? Oh yeah.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

10. 10 years old and in Mr. Blough's 5th grade class

Our class had some white mice as pets, and Jason Lindsey and I got our pictures in the paper taking care of them. Not a thought in my head about politics yet - what blissful ignorance!

[chicagojoe]

12. 7th grade at Lewis School in Chicago

[nini]

13. 10th grade..

first year in a public school after 9 years of catholic school.

[fortyfeetunder]

28. 10th grade too, Washington DC

A fun time for my first year as a marching band geek!

[hickman1937]

14. Two months away from one of the great

adventures of my life.

[warrens]

15. Resisting the draft in Boston

Luckily, I got a high lottery number. I was 1-A because I refused all deferments.

[Maccagirl]

16. Junior in high school

Having a great time with my friends.
Sad that McGovern got his butt kicked, by Nixon no less.
Listening to Elton John, James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Rod Stewart et al.
Getting my drivers' license.
Wearing "those 70's clothes".

Looking back on it, a pretty good time in my life.

[Lorien]

17. Seven years old

attending my ultra liberal left wing hippy private school (things were better then).

[B Calm]

18. I'm in Athens, Greece coloring in the days on my short-timers

calender..

[B Calm]

22. And smoking the black Afgani hash I picked up in Amsterdam

several months ago..

[zann725]

19. My ex-husband and I were splitting up...beginning a life of my own.

Bittersweet times.

[lastknowngood]

20. Enlisted in the Army to avoid the draft, just beat the man comming

for me. Spent seven years in active but was too smart to go to Vietnam.

[B Calm]

37. The draft was almost over...

[BrotherBuzz]

55. Almost doesn't do it

I was drafted that year, and I say drafted is drafted! The upside to being drafted that year, as opposed to enlisting, was Nixon's pre-election announcement that no more draftees would be sent to Vietnam. The order went into effect immediately and spared this stupid draftee, who had just completed extensive training, the Vietnam experience. I wonder if Rumsfeld was thinking of me when he said that draftees added "no value, no advantage, really, to the United States Armed Services..."

[Kire]

21. M y parents have been married for 4 months.

But I haven't been born for almost 3 more years.

[Richard Steele]

23. I was in central Pennsylvania...

A month away from my 4th birthday.

[Smarmie Doofus]

24. Boston University... lived on Comm. Ave til May of '73.....

then went back to NY.

[welshTerrier2]

32. Comm Ave ... me too ....

right near the fork with Brighton Ave ...

moved to Mass in September, 1972 from Merrick, NY ... been here ever since ...

[Smarmie Doofus]

35. Brighton...that's sort of west of BU, yes? Out toward BC?

I lived at 700 Comm Ave.... the big building with three towers.

I love and miss Boston. I go back every once and a while. BU is a different place entirely. The city is still the same though... youthful, high energy. Like New York but minus the $$$$ fixation.

Small world.

[General Zod]

25. I was 10 and in the 5th grade at North View Jr. High....

.....in Clarksburg, W.V. I lived about a block away from the school and used to walk there everyday. I knew about Vietnam, because a young man from our hometown was MIA. I remember my parents, being die-hard Democrats, hated Nixon.

[bikebloke]

26. Senior year of high school

nt

[ikojo]

27. I was in third grade...being brutalized

by the other kids at school.

I was from a divorced family and my mom was kind of wild following the divorce. She had parties every weekend where at times the cops were called to silence the noise.

It was horrid. I don't have many fond memories of this time. I think I have blotted out most of them.

I hated the lifestyle my mom lived then and escaped into books and TV. Another year later I would discover a lifeline...Star Trek.

[senegal1]

29. Freshman in Catholic High School

baggy clothing from goodwill and stringy hair. I remember "Keep on Trucking" and smiley faces were big and we were all wondering who the streakers were (or maybe that was a year or two later?). CB radios were big and the economy was bad.

[SarahB]

31. Same here.

I was 9 months old. :hi:

[Bouncy Ball]

33. You're younger than me?

I was being a toddler. Probably driving my parents crazy.

[mcscajun]

34. Married for the first time...And BEFORE Nixon's re-election...

...I got to vote in a national election for the very first time...for George McGovern!

[BrotherBuzz]

36. In the Army...

Thanks to the only lottery I ever won.

[HEAVYHEART]

38. I was 7 years old

I was still living in the Philippines. This was the year that the boy up the street kissed me out of the blue. My brothers saw and teased me about it for the rest of my life.

[Longgrain]

49. Hi HEAVYHEART

:)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

39. I still lived with my parents, and worked at a large lawfirm as an asst.

bookkeeper in Manhattan. I used to spend a lot of my lunch hours going to bookstores and Central Park.

[flvegan]

40. Celebrating birthday numero uno

I'd just be turning 1, probably enjoying a nice vintage of milk and snacking on some mashed carrots or something. Likely in the arms of mom with a very large Great Dane proboscus nudging at my toes.

[GalleryGod]

41. Working as the youngest Deputy Director of a Title III project

in 'Murica...thinking that ALL things were POSSIBLE... it was the first time I had money to spend...taking girls out on dinner dates; the New Philly Night Life, ah yes!If you take out Nixon and Agnew's landslide-it was a great time!

[scarlett1]

42. I was 13 at Hillcrest Junior High School

Overland Park, Kansas. Eighth Grade, I don't remember much else, I guess I've chosen to forget.

[benny05]

43. Celebrating my Brother's 18th b-day

At a friend's house

[Maestro]

44. Starting pre-school in

Millington, Tennessee.

[ThorsHammer]

45. Not born yet

[Maine-ah]

46. two years

before I was born. T'wasn't even a twinkle in my parents' eyes. They were busy with my brothers and my sister.

[semillama]

47. I was six months old

I was either in Washington, D. C. (I was born there. My dad nearly took out Ted Kennedy as he was rushing to the hospital when my mom went into labor - TK just stepped out into the street as if he expected all traffic to stop immediately, and had to jump back as my dad zoomed by), or recently moved to my hometown in Michigan.

[Burma Jones]

48. Redland Middle School

Still real pissed off about what happened at the Munich Olympics. Wondering what sort of nutcase my Dad was for supporting a Democratic presidential candidate that couldn't even win Maryland. Going to Bar Mitzvahs. Playing in my first Rock Band. And, on reflection, recognizing the first signs of my parent's impending divorce.....

[ralps]

50. I was a junior in high school in Milwaukee, WI. I also was trying

to decide where to go to college.
:hi:

[BikeWriter]

51. I had just been married for the first time a little over a month. n/t

[catzies]

52. Fifth grade in Miami. Dad just married second stepmother in 2 years

But we had some good football going on so I escaped in that.

How many 10-year old girls get immersed in the NFL, anwyay?

[CubsFan1982]

53. November 1972

I was about ten years away from gestation.

[WindRavenX]

54. my genetic code was split into an egg and a sperm

Wasn't even a twinkle in my parents' eyes yet!