Editorial: How 2018 will transport Americans back to 1968
by Chicago Tribune
Dec 29, 2017
3 minutes
There's a difference between nostalgia and sober reflection. The arrival of 2018 will bring an unusually powerful cocktail of both: It marks a half-century since 1968, one of the most consequential, dramatic years in American life.
No single event will drive the commemoration, such as Pearl Harbor in 1941 or 9/11 in 2001. What made 1968 significant was its nonstop, extraordinary tumult that resonates to this day - a riot of struggle and doubt,
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