Think of growing up anywhere in North America in the sixties. If you were in grade school during that time, some key events might have made a very big impression on your innocence. Ed Sullivan bellowed, "Now something for the youngsters…The Beatles!" The Space Age brought you the man on the moon and the assassinations of the Kennedys and King. The Vietnam War was on TV every night. Peace and equality was the mantra of the times – but the establishment was pressing their boot on the neck of a movement primed to change the world as we knew it. All the things you loved about our world, you also wanted to hate. All we are saying is give peace a chance and we shall overcome, but the body count is piling up. It's your fault. It's my fault. It's our fault. It is a coming of age. LeE HaRVEY OsMOND is the eyeball and the ear of Tom Wilson, who grew up during this time in Hamilton, Ontario, a blue-collar steel town.