Posted on 10/05/2008 6:21:45 AM PDT by vietvet67
9.5 million boomers have served in the military, now look at this article in the Weekly Standard. No, the author of it has never served.
The 9/11 Generation
Better than the Boomers.
by Dean Barnett
07/30/2007, Volume 012, Issue 43
In the 1960s, history called the Baby Boomers. They didn’t answer the phone.
Confronted with a generation-defining conflict, the cold war, the Boomers—those, at any rate, who came to be emblematic of their generation—took the opposite path from their parents during World War II. Sadly, the excesses of Woodstock became the face of the Boomers’ response to their moment of challenge. War protests where agitated youths derided American soldiers as baby-killers added no luster to their image.
Few of the leading lights of that generation joined the military. Most calculated how they could avoid military service, and their attitude rippled through the rest of the century. In the 1970s, ‘80s, and ‘90s, military service didn’t occur to most young people as an option, let alone a duty. More.....
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/904pffgs.asp
But now, once again, history is calling. Fortunately, the present generation appears more reminiscent of their grandparents than their parents.
My generation is even worse than the Boomer generation.
Don't get me started on my generation.
Those are liberals we see in every single generation. The “boomers” here is a complete red herring, a strawman a canard...it’s liberals who indeed seek to divide divide divdie...and now we seriously want to inject “generational” warfare into their class envy, race-baiting and so on...ad infinatum??????
Ummmm painting all of the boomers this way means you must hate Sarah Palin also?
All boomers think alike. That’s the intellectually lazy position of this would-be pundit.
He nicely placed the blame on the Boomer Elite.
But why is it necessary to use “boomer” in the first place when he could just as easily and more accurately said LIBERAL elite?
It’s pretty simple really, each generation has it’s heros and idiots:
John Wayne/Al Capone
Michael Moore/Sarah Palin
Paris Hilton....
As an Xer I too blamed the Boomers for along time, however I think it goes much deeper than one generation. The WWII generation fostered the sterile suburban environment a lot of Boomers grew up in brought on by their uber-materialistic world view fostered by the Great Depression. The WWII generation ushered in Roe v. Wade, Vietnam,the Great Society no-fault divorce, etc. It was not the boomers that oversaw these policy changes. However conservative boomers much acknowledge they lost major battles in the culture war ceding the fields of culture and education to the liberal “masters of the universe”. That gave us pc, affirmative action, etc.
Our civilization is withering on the vine and there is ample blame top go around. Think about it even “conservative Boomer leaders” have various ex wives and are corrupted by the culture as well. Every generation has its sins to atone for. I think the “Boomer We’re Just Great” bubble is bursting and it should.
Exactly, the more accurate battle is and always should be liberal vs. conservative ideals across each generation.
Palin and Obama are both boomers after all...in fact so is Biden.
To be more precise, I see godless failed liberalism and secular humanism ruining our cultrure via the NEA and PC run rampant and attacks on Christian culture with incessant separation of church and state PC idiocy as more to blame.
Look what failed secular humanism allowed Europe to become:
a moral vacuum filled with militant Islam!
McCain is indeed a pre-boomer but Obama is not a post-boomer. Obama was born in 1961, the baby boom is defined as the years from 1946 to 1964. Obama is in fact a baby boomer.
Yup...and Biden AND Palin are baby boomers also!
RIIIIIIGHT...and Paris Hilton and Brittney Spears are model citizens in the spolied dept.
Ummm not just a FEW of us.
Using your logic virtually everyone born after 64 is no better than Brittney Spears and Paris Hilton!
Charlie Rangel’s no “boomer”. Why do you need to bash boomers?
Is it an insecurity or ignorance or what?
Excuse me, I am a boomer and I have always thought we should rein in our national debt. However, the politicians fail to listen. I feel it is criminal to burden future generations with crippling debt.
How does it make you feel to see most of your generation act like spoiled brats?
Kettle meet pot!
We don’t know, everytime we go pick up milk I see Paris Hilton and/or Brittney Spears on tabloids in the check outs!!
Boy I can almost see it now...when generation x and y are fending off their young for all of what’s left of their culture.
*sigh*
Well being a baby boomer that was in the USAF for 10 years, I can say that people born in 46 lumped in with people born in 64, I think boomers could easily be broken down even further.
For instance what’s gen X? 65-80?
and y? 80-94?
We have a larger spread...it’s really hard for instance for me to consider my MIL a boomer but she is! :)
Joe Biden Born: November 20, 1942 (1942-11-20) (age 64) Scranton, Pennsylvania. Not a Boomer
Sarah Palin, America’s favorite boomer.
I’m a BOOMER,,,(RA),,,(66-69),,,8/26 ARTY(67-68),,,
Blame the BullSh!t on the so called “Greatest Generation”.
I remember well the Azzholes in the VFW/AL/etc. that
“Knew it all”,,,
Never gave a rat’s ass about anything but themselves,,,
Look who they put in office!!!
How Many Of The NOW generation Went Knockin’ Down The Door
To Join The US Military On 9/12 After We Were Attacked?!?!?!
(Give that to the WWII guys),,,
How Many Have A Fit When A DRAFT Is Mentioned?!?!?!?!
(cluck,cluck,cluck),,,”It’s All Tech. Now”,,,
Bullsh!t!!!
Real MEN Of MY Generation Stood Up When Called!!!
Many Of Their Names Are On A Long Black Wall In DC,,,
(changin’ magazines)
You cite Democrat party political achievements which I =obviously= was not referring to. Apparently you missed that. Many families voted Republican throughout the 20th century. Try reading some history yourself.
Yup...and Biden AND Palin are baby boomers also!
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Uh, no. Biden was born in 1942 so he is definitely NOT a baby boomer, he is a war baby like myself. Palin is technically a baby boomer, she was born in 1964, the last year of the baby boom but some of the earliest of the boomers were having children of their own by ‘64. Obama is actually the only one born during the boom and well before the end of the boom.
“The Boomer Elite”
I only made it a few responses to this article and I am surprised at how many posters missed this important distinction.
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