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In many American homes in the early 20th century hung a framed poem by Rudyard Kipling, If, which begins with “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you…” and ends with “You’ll be a Man, my son.”

Where were you in ’62?” was the tagline for American Graffiti when it was released 39 years ago, in August 1973.