[Two-Bits]

I am so tired of the baby boomers being represented as all hippies and war protestors, etc. Who in the hell do you think went to Viet Nam? Yes, the baby boomers. Who in the hell do you think was the silent majority that put Ronald Reagan in to the White House for two terms? Yes, the baby boomers. We had to put up with the BS from the hippies and the media back then as if these idiots (not the majority mind you) representated us back then.

The majority of us went to Viet Nam when our country called us. The majority of us had to work immediately during and after high school because we did not have elistist mommies and daddies that could sent us to college. If we did go to College, we worked our way thru.

The majority of us were not hippies, war protestors, college students, we were just simple people that love our Country, died for our Country when asked, and never asked nor expected anything from anyone. We worked hard for everything we have. It is time that the baby boomers stop being represented by war protestors and hippies.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I direct you to post #57, please..... ;-)

[wardaddy]

I agree.

It's like saying all Gen X and Yers are self mutilators and nihilists.

The one thing that is undeniably true about the Boomers (1957 here):

We are the largest population bubble the west has ever seen and that alone makes us seem overwhleming and causes resentment...some vaild.

Second, we were the first generation to truly have something of a leisure upbringing till Vietnam. Middle-middle and upper-middle class kids today would have been considered rich kids in the 60s and early 70s....a point that escapes these youngbloods.