I was too young to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis and JFK’s assassination, I never saw The Beatles or even bought one of their records until 1975...I and my friends never went to protest demonstrations and we didn’t go around saying “Right on, brother” or “Power to the people”, “Hey baby, what’s your sign?” or “Pigs off campus”....None of us went to Vietnam to fight in the war or for any other reason...Too young for Woodstock and all that “goin to California” crap, but I guess I’m Baby Boomer anyway. Oh well!
Woodstock? I had a front row seat in Da Nang. Couldn’t see all that much.
I remember all that stuff and still never smoked a joint, went to a protest or participated in free sex. I grew up in a middle class family, worked my way through college, married the only woman I’d ever been intimate with and worked hard my whole life. All my family members and most of my friends lived exactly same life. The media’s version of ‘Boomers’ like everything else is a Hollywood meme with little basis in reality.