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LETTERS, Page 10Those '60s Highs
My husband and I were very moved by Walter Shapiro's thoughts
in "Feeling Low over Old Highs" (ESSAY, Sept. 18). We too came of
age in the '60s and didn't always resist the temptation to sample
drugs. We wax nostalgic and think of it as a distant time with a
different mind-set. Even though we look back with affection, those
feelings are becoming less mellow. We have a son who will soon be
a teenager. What do we tell him? There is no way to justify the
drug use we took part in.
Lynne McGinnis
Houston
Shapiro remarked on how much easier it must be for parents to
instruct their children about the dangers of drug use if they can
honestly say they got through the '60s without drugs. As the mother
of two sons in their early 20s, I'm sure I'm not the only parent
of the '60s to tell you that this is no guarantee of having
drug-free children. Our burden is just as great as that of any of
the Woodstock alumni. Right now one son is in a Los Angeles County
rehabilitation program; the other was able to conquer the problem
with just the help of family and friends.
Elizabeth Wilson Lusk
North El Monte, Calif.
As a 35-year-old baby boomer, I will no more take
responsibility for drug abuse than a beer drinker would for rampant
alcoholism. Have we learned nothing from like issues of the past?
Simply banning things like alcohol and abortion creates additional
problems.
Andy Bernstein
New Brunswick, N.J.