Posted on 09/29/2005 6:19:24 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
"It was the age of selfishness. It was the age of self-indulgence. It was the age of anti-authority. It was an age in which people did all kinds of wrong things."
- Ed Meese III, U.S. Attorney General, Reagan Administration
"It was absolutely exhilarating. It was the greatest time to be alive ever, for sure."
- Charles Kaiser, Author/Historian
No, but I knew all them from kindergarten, till we all graduated the same year,1969, except Mike Hesterberg,he graduated in 1971. I bet it's very rare to have a band that consists of baby boomers from same area, and same school.
PINGING COOL HAND LUKE
YOU are what makes this country great! I wish my life could measure up to yours and your children (I'm still working on it!). Thank you.
We respected and admired our fathers, brothers and family friends that were fighting.
I was too little to do anything, but I always felt like kicking the shi* out of some of those hippies denigrating our troops.
I guess that's why I still hate left wingers.
The early '60s weren't bad; later on in the decade, it stank!
AMEN !
I have only been in Cincinnati 3 years, but my Mom is a native... I would like to see those guys, but the schedule only goes through September 17 on that web page.
"Since 1917, Communism had always led to the killing fields of Siberia, Poland, The Ukraine, Georgia. It wasn't a 60s phenomena."
Very good point. However, it was lost on our leaders during WWII and shortly afterwards at Yalta.
"At least now we know what a totalitarian religion like Islam has in store for us if we lose."
I couldn't agree with you more.
There's still time.
Me to... one of my favorite toys I got for Christmas was a full size M-16 plastic rifle that had sound effects when I pulled the trigger.
Heh, not Churchill.... But, I completely agree.
I'm gratified our leadership now understands the current threat. Let's pull together and win this one without contest.
Kind of like the first Gulf War when we had Saddam by the balls and chose to obey the UN mandate... and nothing more.
The second 1/2 is disingenuous. The hippies were led by men well into their 30s; almost every single one of them RED DIAPER BABIES. From '68 onwards, it was a scary, dangerous, frightening time, with the SDS and the Black Panthers and the Weathermen blowing things up, shooting police and innocents, and hordes of filthy morons taking to the streets, scaring and disgusting normal people.
Forget the "sweetness and light" garbage, you are told about that time. The anit-war morons, back then, were violent and yes, they took to the streets in marauding packs; spitting and cursing and harassing regular people and children.
I watched it for a while, but tired of the old hippies lamenting how much good they had done for the country by rioting and protesting VN. They haven't learned much over the years. One of them was sorry that the present younger generation has not done the same kind of things to protest the present war and cause national disarray as they did. How much real damage the Boomers have done to the Republic only time and history will tell, but their antics were certainly negative. The worst thing about the Boomers is that the Greatest Generation produced them after WW II. What an error!
My late husband was drafted and went to Nam. I met him about 4 years after his return. I already had a degree and went on to law school while we were married.
He hated the college kids we'd be around. He hated my law school friends, many of whom avoided the war via college. He just couldn't get over how one day he was working on the line in Detroit and then, because he was a regular working class guy and didn't go to college, he was in the jungle.
Then later, these same college pukes would be the ones to deny him a job because they were afraid of hiring a war vet who might go crazy on the job or didn't like the military and wouldn't hire a vet at all.
Looking back, I don't know why I was surprised at the depth of his animosity.
Your right. Funny (not) how they are looked back at as "victims".
"Kind of like the first Gulf War when we had Saddam by the balls and chose to obey the UN mandate... and nothing more."
Are you talking about the Russians during the "end game"?
It was NOT what those who didn't live through it, think/are told it was like; not at all.
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