Tinkerbell, you and I could have posted almost the exact same thing. I was five months old in October of 75; I didn't know a darn thing about it until two years ago when I happened to be seated next to a former JW at a wedding reception. This gentleman had been in our congregation and knew my family, and remembered me as a small child. He left when I was very young; so I didn't remember him but I vaguely remember his parents.
In any case, my parents never told me anything about the 75 Armageddon no-show. The man I sat next to, however, told me some very interesting things about one of the well-known members of our congregation: how he sold his business in 1975, and took his family (wife and all six kids) up to the roof of their house on the date in October that he thought would be the end....and then sheepishly had to bring them all back down again the next morning when nothing had happened. All of this in plain view of everyone in the village where we lived. LMAO No wonder my parents didn't want to tell me about it. How embarassing for the borg. LOL