[Gingersnap]

Actually, I was born 1958. Elvis, the Beatles, Vietnam, and all the rest of those Boomer cultural markers are meaningless to me.

But you are right about all the rest of us picking up the trash now that the party is over.

[DumpsterDiver]

But you are right about all the rest of us picking up the trash now that the party is over.

I don't see that as being so much a generational difference as it is a difference in people in general. Some are irresponsible, others are not. That occurs in every generation.

[CyberCowboy777]

My Dad was born 1958 as well and had little to do with the Boomers, he could not possibly get over to Viet Nam or be drafted because by the time he was 17 and enlisted the war was basically over. In fact his dad was in Viet Nam.

[cyncooper]

Actually, I was born 1958. Elvis, the Beatles, Vietnam, and all the rest of those Boomer cultural markers are meaningless to me.

That's odd. I was born in '58 and all of those are the hallmarks of my youth! I do find it odd to be categorized--always have--as a baby boomer along with those old enough to fight in the war.

[cyncooper]

In fact my first 45 was by The Beatles. I still have it. ("I'm Happy Just to Dance With you" + "I'll Cry Instead")

[BabsC]

I was born in 1955 but my Dad was career military so I was a bit more in tuned with the difference between Washington politics and campus politics.

Dad served in Korea and did two tours in Vietnam(real tours, 12 months for the first 16 months for the second), I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan in '64, got sent to the principal in '63 when I was the first in my school to know the President was dead and shot my mouth off, stood still with the rest of the world when we walked on the moon in '69, etc etc.

But all that aside, I know what you mean. I've worked at something since I was 12 to make my own money outside the home. I was pretty disgusted with the peace/love/dove bunch myself. They preached tearing down the establishment but had nothing to offer in its place and they were the ones that dishonored our soldiers when they returned from a war in which they won every battle but were forced to desert their allies.

I'm a Daddy's girl at heart and no one disses Daddy.