The people who went to woodstock in 1969 to hear original music all had an alternative view about the future of America. After 1969 like-minded people who opposed the war, wanted single payer national health care, better and equal education, civil rights for all people, were criminalized by the disgraced and impeached Nixon. When Pres. Ford pardoned Nixon for his crimes against the country and then continued Nixon’s illegal war on marijuana which has now become tradition most of us continued the fight to make our world a better happier world with aware citizens and where everything is not for sale but instead recycled to serve a need and to preserve our environment. We went to Woodstock because we were pulled there by our own self-made culture that we all shared in peace. To those who say that it was dirty and there weren’t any bathrooms and that the crowd were scum-bags, you are correct it was not a corporate, sterile, dead music event. The musical concert that took place in Woodstock, N.Y. in 1969 was the end of the freedom movement of the 1960s, after that we were  and still are refugees trying to open the door to truth whenever we can.