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The Shire.
That’s where I grew up, the American equivalent of the Shire. Its name is Warren, Ohio, and every other place in the U.S. like it. The American Shire was the set for television’s "The Wonder Years," and its kids were loosely patrolled — though we did not know it — because FDR and the Greatest Generation had made that blanket of safety possible for a time.
My part of the Shire let in very little noise from the much larger, far more dangerous world to interrupt its remarkable calm. My father, with his two brothers, had gone off to war in faraway places, but, as the cliché puts it, truthfully, "they didn’t talk about it" and they certainly didn’t want to relive it or let their children know what war was actually like.
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"Vietnam" passed by our family and those of our friends because Richard Nixon ended the draft and brought home the half million Americans at war there in 1969 when he took over from LBJ and JFK, who had sent them to Southeast Asia. My cousin was at Kent State on the awful day, and our next door neighbor is on Time magazine’s infamous cover. That was as close as reality got to me. Echoes of the domestic upheavals were around, and the civil rights riots reached even abolitionist land in northeastern Ohio. But still, my teachers would do their best to talk about communism and the world, but only a handful of them truly "got it." And the veterans among them, they’d rather burn their hands on a stove than talk about the big war or the Korean War.
It was very much Tolkien’s Shire, as was most of........