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When I was young we hated war and took to the streets to protest, music was antiwar, the peace sign was everywhere.

So what's happened now? but war and death is glamorised on video games, security are always on high alert, times are a changin' for the worse unfortunately

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EuphoricTurtle · 41-45, M

I'm guessing you took to the streets to protest the Vietnam war and/or other proxy wars. You lived in the always present threat of nuclear war with the Soviet Union to the point where children were taught in school how to hide under desks during a nuclear blast. And even though you didn't have war and death glamorised in video games (only because they didn't exist) you had plenty of blockbuster movies doing that in regards to the cold war;

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@Solipsism: I was too young to be a uni student and take to the streets but I saw them on TV. In fact I remember 4 students gunned down by your brave national guard. Yep the media actually shown the blood trickling onto the pavement from her body. That would be banned now. I also remember a Time magazine front cover with dead US soldiers in Vietnam loaded haphazardly on the back of a troop carrier

EuphoricTurtle · 41-45, M

@pete11: May I remind you that the largest anti-war protest was in 2003 in relation to the occupation of Iraq as it gathered 6-11 million people in several countries. The only reason it wasn't as strong in the US as with the Vietnam war (especially students protesting) is that there was no longer any conscription and therefore students were not in danger of being forced to fight a war they wanted no part of, which was a BIG part of the protest movement.

As for photographic impact you just have to see the World Press Photos of recent years.

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when was the last time you saw a dead American soldier on WESTERN MEDIA