The Second Part of "The 60's"

In the second half of the miniseries; Brian returns from Vietnam, Michael is still involved in politics on a campaign, Katie had her child, and Emmet feels responsible for the death of his father. They are all facing things from the choices they made in the past and they have to deal with how their lives are now. Brian returned from the Vietnam war with several problems and was traumatized. Brian dealt with all of this alone because he didn't know how to fit in the society anymore and his father didn't give him much support. When Michael sees how his brother returned from war, he fights even harder against the war and he was looking for signatures to bring troops fighting in the war. His father didn't support Michael either. Katie reunited with her brothers and brings her child with her, she felt like she was finally home because she was never happy away from it. After the death of his father, Emmet realizes he should keep fighting for his right but in a peaceful way, as his father taught him. He became part of a group that fed children who were poor.

In the end we see how the father of Brian, Michael, and Katie finally accepts them and their choices. He learned it was better to love them in spite of their choices than to have to live without them. They returned home and were finally happy. Emmet learned to live with the things his father always taught him and the example he gave him, he visited his grave looking for forgiveness, he needed to forgive himself from the seat of his father to finally move on and be happy.