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[b]The main point is that people born 1961-65 did not give a shit about the draft or the Vietnam War,[/b] so they were not Boomers.[/quote]

This isn't true at all.  I was born in '61 and my older brother, born in 1954, was drafted in 1971 or 72.  He applied and was granted conscientious objector status and it was a prolonged and painful process that had a big impact on our whole family.[/quote]

(shrug) I was a kid in the 1960s. I had friends with older siblings. Nobody ever talked about the draft or the war.[/quote]

Another '61 here and I didn't know much at all about Vietnam. I grew up in DC so the protests were going on nearby and I had no idea. However we did not have a TV until I was in 2nd or 3rd grade, and moved out of the country shortly after that to a country with very limited American programming (one channel on weekends only and not current programs) so I was very sheltered. I guess by the early 70s I knew something about it but cared more about the Brady Bunch than current events.

I don't remember the Kennedy assassination at all. I was 2.
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