Alex Wagner's special is disheartening

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55. I know "young" people

in their 20's who are not white nationalists by any means but who refuse to believe that things like the beatings and killings during the Civil Rights era of the '50's and '60's happened. It wasn't really taught to them in school or discussed at home because those years weren't on the news anymore. Good enough people otherwise but just very uninformed. Even people in their 40's were many times in many schools taught next to nothing about Vietnam and the anti-war movement. They know about the Civil Rights March on Washington because everyone has heard the speech of Dr. King but they never heard about the Vietnam Moratorium Marches. The subject that nearly ripped this country apart is now faded or unknown to so many. Several years ago when I first said the words Kent State to some people in their early 20's they had no idea what I was talking about. Even once I told them they had a hard time believing I was telling the truth and wasn't just making it up. It seemed impossible to them when I told them that people their age had mobilized millions across the country and that nearly 100,000 marched in Boston and an estimated 500,000 in DC. Here are pics from looking toward the Washington Monument and then the Capitol. And in Boston.