Yup! Gotta love that World War followed by Korea and then Nam. The Japanese showed up on our shores with their less expensive, smaller cars which didn't do the UAW any particular good nor shareholders in the "Big Three." And, let's not forget polio. Oh, and the birth of the "anti-tobacco" movement. I shouldn't mention the Dodgers and Giants. Boston at least stayed east of the Mississippi. The NHL started to dilute its business, as did basketball and the NFL. Good times for sure.
Selective memory is a grand thing.
You wouldn't go back for the bad stuff. Like I said, just visit. Have a little fun, buy a couple pipes maybe some comic books.
Most countries are built on heaps of bones and blood, maybe a little genocide just for fun. I figure if you're going to travel in time, you'll do it for a vacation. Have some fun. Leave the politics in your current time.
Don't try to change the world because you may not like the outcome. Just enjoy the good stuff. I watched this movie Hawaii recently and I've been there a couple times. Love it. Would love to live there. If I had a fruit and veggie garden in the back yard. Man stuff can get expensive there. And Wal-Mart is no help. But the booze is cheap.
Anyway, its paradise. I'd never want to leave. And yes the STDs was bad. Sailors brought measles, chicken pox, and even the common cold and lots of islanders died. You can't do away with greed, lust, and murder. Hopefully one day we can find away to just live in peace with each other then the whole planet would be paradise.
For now I'm just trying to enjoy a little what if in paradise and in a little less complex time.
It seems every decade we get a little more cruel. We have to learn to live with unacceptable violence. People are becoming numb to it. They can just pass by while someone's being robbed, beaten, or raped. "Not my business," "I don't want to get involved." At least back then they would stop it. They'd do something, be a witness if necessary.
There's not a decade in our past that isn't touched by some sort of violence or evil. But if you're going to travel in time, like I said you don't do it to change the World, you do it to get away from it.
