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The third of July:For Dave.I last stood at this spot almost...
Monty Rakusen Photographers BlogThe third of July:
For Dave.
I last stood at this spot almost exactly 45 years ago.
I was travelling with Dave.
Richard Nixon, the president, was embroiled in the Water Gate scandal and resigned only a few months later. Fall out shelters were common and it was deep in the Cold War, it felt like we could have been ‘nuked’ at any time. The Vietnam war was just dragging to a bloody end. There were hippies protesting here and wounded Veterans all around, rather like a scene from Forrest Gump. If I had been a US citizen then I would have been drafted to go fight in a jungle. David Essex was top of the charts in the UK. There were no computers, no internet, no mobiles, social media or cordless phones, no Facebook, no Twitter, no blogging no apps. No ‘modern world’. No pandemic.
I was with my friend Dave who has sadly passed away many years ago but I still have the privilege of experiencing my existence. It’s an amazing world even with all it’s terrible faults, we should be thankful for every moment!
This is from my recent trip to the USA on assignment
near Washington DC.
