At the six o'clock news every evening, we would sit, watch and pray that none of our relatives or none of the neighborhood boys would be coming home in a body bag, listening to the casualty count given as if we were keeping score and wishing it would all end soon!
In other news...McCarthy's Youth Brigade
Tensions were at their peak as students demonstrating against the war and the present administration were subdued by Chicago police.
College students entered national politics with an unprecedented passion in 1968 at
McCarthy's primary campaigns and at the National Democratic Convention as seen below. 
