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"Interesting. This article describes both my wife and I to a very high degree. Being both born in 1961, we have been continually labeled as "late boomers". This is patently false. We are, without any doubt, "early Gen-Xer"s."

Thank you so much., I've been saying this for years. We are NOT baby boomers. THEY are the pig in the Python, all we got was their waste (kind word for their excrement.)

We are NOT baby boomers. Early Gen-Xers sounds right. I was moshing and was there with the early punk rockers. That isn't the baby boomers. The boomers are Woodstock, Watergate and Haight-Asbury. Its LSD and Timothy Leary, its the Berrigan Brothers and Howard Zinn, most of us werent even alive (really we were babies when these nuts were hitting their stride.)

"The boomers are Woodstock, Watergate and Haight-Asbury. Its LSD and Timothy Leary, its the Berrigan Brothers and Howard Zinn, most of us werent even alive (really we were babies when these nuts were hitting their stride.)"

I wasn't a baby during this time, I turned 13 in 1970, but still, I didn't understand what all the protests were about. The people partaking in these events were college students and they seemed AGES older than me. I did know though, that my father, Marine of Korea era) was angry about what the students were doing and saying. I remember being happy when the soldiers came home, but mostly just because I was concerned for their safety (a neighbors boy had been injured quite badly.) I dnd't understand all the anger directed at the soldiers returning, and believe it or not, the teachers in my public school never addressed it,one way or another.