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I wrote my tribute to Ronald Reagan as a message to the "Reagan's children" and younger generations. I was born in 1963, but I've never been a "boomer" in outlook and never identified with the boomers. As I've spoken to people, I've often found a sharp ideological break around 1962. Those born before that year tend to have more of the "boomer" attitudes. Those of us born after that year don't easily fit any category. I remember one radio commentator who called us "the forgotten generation between Seinfeld and Friends."

I love what President Reagan did for this country, but we are still recovering from deep wounds caused by the Clintons. If we are going to be the shining city in the future, we have to clean the poison left by the 90's. We can do it, but it is is no easy task. The future depends on doing it successfully.

One More Tribute (to President Reagan)
Bill

Thanks for writing that!! It was great.

I have to confess now...I am greatly confused. Being born in 1967, am I part of the late boomer wave? or am I a part of GenX? I didnt even have boomer parents, with my dad born in 1936 and my mom in 1940, but they came of age right about the time of the Korean War. What's more, Im adopted, and my birthmother, for all I know, was a hippie, and so where do I fit it? Its why I always make the cutoff date for the GenXers to be right at 1980, because that's when the Boomers started settling into their careers and began having babies. The amount of money spent on toys in the 80s was thrice that of what had gone on when I was a child. I have a great deal of affection for the after '80 child boom, because I have a feeling they too will greatly surprise their parents, but I get a bit incensed when my peers are brushed over to call the boomlet the Genxers. We have then gone from being "whatever" to "who?" which is worse than being labeled. We weren't easily defined or manipulated, so I feel we were tossed aside...and now that we have a hero with which we can identify ourselves and makes ourselves known, YOUNGER groups are claiming him too.

GAH...its silly and profound at the same time.