it just doesn’t leave my mind, the way we believed in it, the possibility of peace, the idea that we were part of the generation that was making this happen, that our minds were being opened into new possibilities.  And then he was assasinated.

And then we, who were so committed to the changes he worked to create, had to sit through Richard Nixon’s commencement speech.  And in a way we understood, then, that all the promises of a new world that were instilled in us during those four years of university, were all lies – that even the greatest minds who led us forward could not protect us from the corruption and evil that was inevitably coming.