Note: This is an updated re-print of my earlier Lakewood Observer column regarding 1969. In a great many ways, 1969 changed everything. Just about anyone alive at that time knew it too. If 1968 brought rain, 1969 brought the storm; literally and figuratively, locally and nationally. Many writers allude to a time in history when innocence was lost forever. If any year filled that bill, it was 1969. It was also quite a time for this young writer, who was about to graduate from Lakewood High School.
