Yikes my Mom went to that High School--graduated 1946...I would have gone there but moved to Chicago and graduated there, 1972. Cool times, music, experience, people. Viet Nam and Draft still hung over some of us boys.
I graduated from a Northeast suburban h.s. like this one, in 1972. The draft still hung over the 18 year old guys, and if you were not in college and got a low number, the war in Vietnam was still raging. Could be why the guys in this vid look a little angsty.
Yea, I was thinking the same thing. I grew up in Southern California (class of 73) and it was skateboards, surfing, and music basically. But one thing that really sticks out in my mind was that the "chicks" (about 90%) all had the identical bodies and hair. They looked like Ali Mac Graw back then. Which of course I really liked!
None. This was 1972. We signed peace in early 73. Moreover we had few troops there by then. The 4 year descalation under Nixon, mirrored the 4 year escalation escation under Johnson.
@Mark-t1m4y Nope. Draft was still active and a major concern for these guys. They could all have been drafted shortly after high school graduation if they weren't either college bound and/or ROTC enrolled.
@@robertfreestone414 Oh, I know that we still swetted the draft in 72. And yes, we might have been inducted, but unknown to us, Nam was not in the cards.
@@robertfreestone414 The draft ended by 1974. In 1975 the NVA launched the final offensive, (hence 75 saw an uptick in KIA. Aparently there are great discrepancies in figures. The following are from the Defense Casualty Analysis System: 1960-4: 5, 16, 53, 122, 216 1965-9: 1928, 6350. 11363, 16899, 11,780 1970-5 6173, 2414, 759, 68, 1, 162 According to the Washington HQ Services, , Directorate for Information Operations and Reports which has a breakdown by month and service the montly kill for 75 was 5, 0, 1, 16, 43, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0 = 67
The smoking corner! I'm class of '80 but had a sister from class of '71 and one from '73. I see a girl that resembles Tish Sperry but can't put a name to most of these folks.
Very cool and a little creepy. Everything still looks exactly the same.
Yikes my Mom went to that High School--graduated 1946...I would have gone there but moved to Chicago and graduated there, 1972. Cool times, music, experience, people. Viet Nam and Draft still hung over some of us boys.
I graduated from a Northeast suburban h.s. like this one, in 1972. The draft still hung over the 18 year old guys, and if you were not in college and got a low number, the war in Vietnam was still raging. Could be why the guys in this vid look a little angsty.
Who are you? Joe C? It’s really fun. We were so young
I wish there was sound.
Didn’t know we Nina. RIP
It's interesting how people didn't have backpacks, something that's so ubiquitous at every high school nowadays
Yep we carried books loose and the girls carried purses.
Me neither. Graduated in ‘80.
How many of these young men went to Nam and never came home?
The class four years prior would have had some most likely.
Good days
Hi everyone
What state was this in?
Ohio. Suburb of Dayton.
Oakwood is actually a small city just south of Dayton. No angst there. They were all going to college@@pakojoe
@@pakojoe leaves on the ground so it is fall, was it school year 1972/1973 ?
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Joe Slonaker? Yes
This was not my crowd!!
what was ur crowd
Yea, I was thinking the same thing. I grew up in Southern California (class of 73) and it was skateboards, surfing, and music basically. But one thing that really sticks out in my mind was that the "chicks" (about 90%) all had the identical bodies and hair. They looked like Ali Mac Graw back then. Which of course I really liked!
Which state?
@@terriqueen3315 Oakwood is a suburb of Dayton, Ohio
Hmmm. How many of these guys do you think were killed in Vietnam a year later?
None. This was 1972. We signed peace in early 73. Moreover we had few troops there by then. The 4 year descalation under Nixon, mirrored the 4 year escalation escation under Johnson.
@Mark-t1m4y Nope. Draft was still active and a major concern for these guys. They could all have been drafted shortly after high school graduation if they weren't either college bound and/or ROTC enrolled.
@@robertfreestone414 Oh, I know that we still swetted the draft in 72. And yes, we might have been inducted, but unknown to us, Nam was not in the cards.
@Mark-t1m4y According to the National Archives, 759 US military members died in combat in 1972--a lot for a "winding down war".
@@robertfreestone414 The draft ended by 1974. In 1975 the NVA launched the final offensive, (hence 75 saw an uptick in KIA. Aparently there are great discrepancies in figures. The following are from the Defense Casualty Analysis System:
1960-4: 5, 16, 53, 122, 216
1965-9: 1928, 6350. 11363, 16899, 11,780
1970-5 6173, 2414, 759, 68, 1, 162
According to the Washington HQ Services, , Directorate for Information Operations and Reports which has a breakdown by month and service the montly kill for 75 was 5, 0, 1, 16, 43, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0 = 67
My sister at 1:09
My feet r buzzing🦶🦶😍
So cooooool. Whose channel is this? We were so young! The corner!
My feet are buzzing too
The smoking corner! I'm class of '80 but had a sister from class of '71 and one from '73. I see a girl that resembles Tish Sperry but can't put a name to most of these folks.
ruclips.net/video/uFMGAsXWMlc/видео.html I shot this on 16mm film, on a hand crank camera...1971