I’m a War Baby, born 9 months after Pearl Harbor. My little sis was born in 1950 and is a Boomer. HUGE difference between between the two of us beyond those 8 years.
I joined the Naval Air Reserves early in my Sr. year of HS, went active a year later and served on a carrier in the catapults division. I earned my AAS, BBA and MBA while married with children, working full time and getting little sleep.
The little bit of money my parents had saved in hopes of me going to college after HS instead went to my little sister, since I’d joined the Navy. ...The newly built house my parents bought in ‘43 was 800 sq. ft. and the 30 year mortgage required monthly payments of $37!!!! ...I only mention that about the house to give younger FReepers an idea of the economy at the time.
Little sis was a little kid and pre-teen in the ‘50s and early ‘60s. She enjoyed the relative ‘booming’ of the economy of those years and went on to get her college degree, help her fiancee complete dental school and then live a life as a stay at home mom. She’s never known hardship. .......She’s been a good mom (kids now grown), but is a gun hater and a ‘greenie’. Only lives about 40 miles from me but we haven’t seen or talked to each other in 3 years because of our divergent views on politics. Sad.
Sorry to all for the long posting of some personal things, but was trying to illustrate that there ARE differences in people, depending on WHEN they were born and the circumstances that existed as they were being raised and schooled.
I was born in 1957 and am in no way anything like your sister. Your generalizing about when a person was born holds no water. Your comments only boost the boomer bashing that is prevalent here on FR.
My siblings and I haven’t diverged politically, but I used to easily forget that the music of my young adulthood wasn’t even remotely the same as the music of youngest sisters’ young adulthood (I finally got over that), and there are cultural things which don’t really affect their conservatism, on which we diverge. Of course, my youngest siblings are some 10 or more years younger than me.
Personal anecdotes of others interest me, and I find myself referring to them a good bit (I try not to, I know most don’t care for it, but after all, our own lives and those of the people we know best, are what we know best).
$37 a month for the mortgage!!! Oh well, I can remember when a pack of cigs was under a dollar, and gas was...really cheap :)