I was born in December 1949, so my personal history is intimately entwined with the events of the last fifty years of the twentieth century. John Kennedy was elected then assasinated while I attended Catholic schools. The year I graduated high school, 1968, saw the murders of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, and riots of the Chicago Democratic Convention. The first time I heard about pot and LSD and drugs was in a library, looking at the covers of Time, Life and Look magazines. While in college, the VietNam war protests continued, leading to the deaths on a campus that inspired Four D more...