Your Opinion: Do we change with time?

Dear Editor:

We like to think that people and situations change, but do they? Take a look back 50 years to 1968.

Jan. 20 - North Vietnamese communists launch Tet Offensive; Johnson administrations claims that the communist forces are weak and U.S.-backed south is winning the war.

Jan. 20 - N.Korea seizes the USS Pueblo claiming the surveillance ship stayed into its waters. (See Dec. 23)

Feb. 28 - Orangeburg Massacre - So Carolina State campus - students protest segregation

March 6 - Some 15,000 Latino high school students in L.A. demand better education

March 18 - Sen. R.F. Kennedy enters race for Democratic president nomination

March 31 - President L.B. Johnson announces he is not running for re-election

April 4 - Martin Luther King Jr. shot by James E. Ray (See June 8)

April 23 - Students at Columbia University take control of five buildings asking university to cut ties to military research.

May 27 - Supreme Court rules 7-1 that burning a draft card is not an act of free speech

June 4 - R.F. Kennedy assassinated in L.A.

June 8 - James E. Ray arrested in London and extradited to U.S. (See April 4)

July 1 - Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapon Treaty signed

July 23 - Glenville shootout in Cleveland between black militants and police

Aug. 20 - Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia

Sept. 7 - Feminists protest Miss American Pageant in Atlantic City about how women are treated

Oct. 16 - First black power salute in public arena Olympic Games in Mexico City

Nov. 5 - Shirley Chisholm first black woman elected to U.S. House of Representatives

Nov. 12 - Supreme Court rules Arkansas law prohibiting teaching of evolution violates First Amendment

Dec. 9 - World's first mouse and word processor introduced

Yale University agrees to admit female undergraduates in 1969

Dec. 23 - N. Korea releases the Pueblo crew, but keeps ship. (See Jan. 20)

You see, things don't really change much as to what is important, regardless of the time. These facts are from the December Smithsonian Magazine.

Fighting among ourselves will not make our country greater, but rather will weaken the roots which our forefathers planted.