Light Glows and the Dark Tones: Day 38, 39, 40, and 41:

Day 38:
Today was Sunday, but did not go to church. Just watched movies and did nothing. Boring.

Day 39:
Went to school today and made up tests. Came home, wrote a quick essay on the effects that Vietnam put on the 60s.

Here it is:

The Era of War and Peace

The Sixties have been full of mixed cultures and emotions. Some dreams have been fulfilled; some have become nightmares for others. Families lost loved ones through drafts or gained their loved ones back with posttraumatic stress disorder following them. Many anti-war hippies have been against the war and engaged in presumed peace exercises. The Vietnam War influenced the Sixties and earlier Seventies so much, that U.S. is still affected today.

In the Sixties, the revolution of the hippy beatniks has arrived. Hippies have been against the war from the start. The beatniks would start anti-war movements. These bohemians would have large groups and practice using marijuana and LSD to explore the different realms of their mind. Free spirited and peaceful these hippies were. The war encouraged the beginning of this peaceful group. Not as numerous since the Sixties through Seventies, the hippies are still around today.

The war may have started a serene organization, but negative trials have been born throughout this war. Young soldiers with wives and families have been harmed with the difficult objectives of seeing death and enduring depression. The war affected the soldiers mentally and physically. The toilsome posttraumatic stress disorder is one of the leading consequences of joining the battle in Vietnam. Either the soldier engaged in the untimely death of enemy or a good friend of the soldier since they joined the force was murdered by a fatal shot from enemy lines. Maybe that is one of the mistakes to do when you copulate yourself into a war: make a friend. Nevertheless, people struggle with the denouement of posttraumatic stress disorder still today.

As much as the war was superfluous to most people in the United States, citizens still needed to register to be drafted. When a teen turns eighteen that teen is required to fill out a draft form. The war has taken the loves of at least 60% of the teens that were drafted into the war. The rest were lucky to come home.

The Vietnam War affected the Sixties in a big way. The war was seduced into the lyrics, literature, and scripts of movies, songs, and books. Overtime the hippie culture has become one of the symbols of the era. Soldiers and their family suffered with trauma, depression, or even the loss of their life. Drafting was one of the main causes of all this sorrow. The Vietnam War mixing in with the Sixties was indeed an interesting conclusion of instances.

Day 40:
Forgot to bring my Personal Fitness clothes to school today, so I had to sit at the wall. The atleast i had my tunes.