[gailtate]

I was in San Jose during the Vietnam Sixties. During the summers of 1968 and 1970 in the wake of the assassinations, invasion of Cambodia and the massacre at Kent State (not to mention campus closures sparked by the latter), the U.S of A. was far more polarized than it is today. Need I remind anyone that on the October morning of the USC/Stanford game attended by an SRO crowd of 90,000, there came a notification to then-president Lyman that a bomb had been hidden somewhere in Stanford Stadium and that it was announced pre-kickoff?

I have faith in the republic. Some of the denizens, not so much.

[gailtate]

I was in San Jose during the Vietnam Sixties. During the summers of 1968 and 1970 in the wake of the assassinations, invasion of Cambodia and the massacre at Kent State (not to mention campus closures sparked by the latter), the U.S of A. was far more polarized than it is today. Need I remind anyone that on the October morning of the USC/Stanford game attended by an SRO crowd of 90,000, there came a notification to then-president Lyman that a bomb had been hidden somewhere in Stanford Stadium and that it was announced pre-kickoff?

I have faith in the republic. Some of the denizens, not so much.