“What you need to do, Peter, is stop believing all those sick people on the television and news and stop listening to those crazy people making that stuff they call music…If all you collage kids want to leave this country or burn it down, you better be mighty sure you know what you’re doing”
I started A Walk Across America (I heard about it via the Sketchnote Army Podcast with Patrick Rhone) and this line from the second chapter really struck me. I was reading the second before and had this gnawing feeling in my chest “Was the post-Vietnam US similar to today?” I can’t answer this for certain, but lines like this make me wonder if there are some echoes in our world today.