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Growing up, were you parents strict on what you were allowed to watch?

Like for instance, my mom WOULD NOT let me watch the movie "Rising Sun", she also banned me to watch certain channels...
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When I was really young, I was supposed to keep the TV on one channel, and one channel only. It has Lost in Space, Hogan's Heroes, all this stuff.

I was like four. But then I would always switch it and watch Walter Cronkite report about the Vietnam War. Which eventually fucked with me.

I was all jammed up about it, and I remember late at night bothering my mother and father about it. Am I going to die in the Vietnam War? Are you? Are the VC going to take over?

Then my mom knew I was changing channels and spanked me. But I kept turning to Cronkite anyway.
Crazywaterspring · 61-69, M
Then Cronkite went to Vietnam and saw the war himself. His reporting changed public opinion against that war.