[riverdawg]

I am not a liberal, and I am not “offended” by your over-generalized condemnations of young people in the 1960’s. They are simply wrongheaded, as Two-Bits pointed out. I was a teenager in the 60’s, and where I grew up (SE Virginia) there was virtually no draft dodging, dope smoking, or war protesting. Many of my friends’ older brothers proudly served in Vietnam, and at least three of them died there. You have bought into the San Francisco-style caricature of the 1960’s perpetrated by the MSM. The vast majority of the young people back then (myself included) were not involved in, affected by, or even very aware of the well-chronicled but exaggerated excesses of that decade.

[Little Bill]

You are right on about our generation. I grew, up in a Massachusetts Old Industrial City, we all went to Viet Nam all volunteers, Army, Marines.

[Two-Bits]

Thank you for helping to destroy the myth that seems to characterize us baby boomers. As then as now, our Viet Nam vets still do not get the respect they deserve. The majority of us did not have the luxury of college scholarships or rich mommies & daddies supporting us. A lot of us that went to college, took night courses while working a full time job supporting a family. Those of us that did not go to college, worked full time. The majority of us have never seem the inside of a jail, little on a court house except when called upon for jury duty. None of us had the money nor inclination to protest, smoke dope or abort our young. We are the silent majority that helped to elect one of the greatest Presidents ever in two landslides, Ronald Reagan. The majority of us still pay our taxes, social security & obey the laws but instead we are all lump together as pot smoking, baby aborting, draft dodging spoiled brats.

Hopefully, the next generation will not think that Code Pink, Michael Moore, and those that protest the war now represent this generation and somehow those that fought bravely in Iraq & Afghanistan fall by the wayside.

We will just have to keep getting the truth out regarding the sixties.