OK, I'll admit it. I whine way too often in this space. It's usually about something I've seen featured on the news that's eiher so dumb, so violent or so irrelevant to anyone's life that I can hardly stand it. Today it's Woodstock. Here's the truth...lots of people, many many people of that same age and time were not frolicking in the mud with the drug-crazed souls so celebrated by the media.

It first started to annoy me when I was teaching a class on values and was asked by a student: "What was it like at Woodstock?" She assumed anyone from that generation was either there or wished to be. And the manner in which the 40 anniversary was touted yesterday I understand why many younger people think we were all part of the aimless and restless.

Truth be told, doing the normal thing will never be recognized by the powers that sprinkle the airwaves. It is a disservice to us all that only the sleazy and immoral gets a nod. College kids going to class, singing in the sorority choir and cheering on the team will never be the face of 1969. But it was. Honest.