While 400,000 young people were celebrating at the Woodstock Festival in New York in August 1969, thousands of other young men were engaged in a war nearly 10,000 miles away in Vietnam. Many of those ...
I want to express my sincere appreciation for printing “As Hippies Partied,” (Richard K. Kolb, PostOpinion, Aug. 17). I served in Vietnam when I was 18 years old. I rarely speak about my service ...
In 1969, a three-day music festival took place in a muddy field outside Woodstock, NY. The event was a chaotic mess, with way more people showing up than expected, and not enough services for them.
Former Marine Cpl. James Corcoran, lying in the lower right of the image, went intending to work security and for the music. Friends Nick Ercoline and Bobbi Kelly, center, ended up on the movie ...
The differences between the experiences of young Americans at Woodstock in 1969 and those slogging through their wretched tours of duty in Vietnam that same deadly year are legion, as Richard E. Kolb ...
When thousands of other young people were making their way to Woodstock, the music festival that would come to represent the peace and free love themes of the 1960s, 19-year-old Jerry Burger was on ...
The historical Woodstock music festival celebrated its 50th birthday this year, but plans for an anniversary event wound up falling to pieces. “We had everything kind of lined up really well,” ...
Let’s look at the Vietnam War by the numbers during the same time as Woodstock in August 1969. While Woodstock rocked for three days, attended by some 400,000 of the nation’s largely affluent young, ...
It's been 50 years now since Nick and Bobbi Ercoline first walked on a particular hillside in Bethel, New York. "Brings me back to the time when I was 20 years old and falling in love with this ...
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