1968: Timeline This timeline focuses on some major events of 1968. When necessary or indicated, contextual background material, or certain subsequent events will be referenced in the text. This brief document cannot hope to touch on all or even most of the important happenings in what was perhaps an uniquely "eventful" year, but focuses especially on events referred to in the text of the interviews.
Exploring how a nation remembers war may tell us something about the war, both when it was fought and how it is remembered today. How have the sharp divisions brought by Vietnam surfaced in our remembrance of it? On another note - now that we are 50 years beyond the Vietnam War, shouldn't most high school students get beyond it in their US History classes?