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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Other than being drafted into Vietnam, boomers had it the best. Cheap college and the ability to develop good paying careers without college. Low housing prices on top of that. Then they turned conservative and pulled out the rug from under everyone else.[/quote]

Most boomers were too young to go to Vietnam.  Military advisors were in Vietnam during the 1950’s, numbers of advisors increased by a lot in 1961, the first attack against Americans was 1964, the first troops landed in Vietnam in 1965.   The war ended in 1975.   A large amount of boomers were not affected by the Vietnam.

Anyone who groups a very large amount of people born over 20 years as having the same experiences and same way of thinking is an idiot.

People forget that “the silent generation” grew up during the Great Depression, WW2 and fought in the Korean War and the youngest fought in Vietnam.  [/quote]

The people drafted for Vietnam were born between 1944 and 1952. So while most Boomers weren’t drafted, the vast majority of people who were called to serve in Vietnam were Boomers. Those younger were not drafted but nearly everyone of that generation felt the effects of the war. No denying that it was a war that defined the generation. [/quote]

There were millions not affected by the war at all.  I took a college course about the war that was solely about Vietnam.

The people born the first ten years fought the Vietnam war.  The oldest one remember JFKs assassination. The youngest hadn’t been born yet or were toddlers.  The oldest ones were hippies and marched in civil rights protests, they remembered the assassinations of MLK and RFK.

The younger boomers were more about the Reagan years with high unemployment and high interest rates but didn’t have the turmoil that the older ones went through. A totally different lifestyle that’s why it is so stupid to keep writing as if you are talking about one unit.  [/quote]

To be fair, people whining about Vietnam must seem really entitled to the generation who had to run headfirst into Gatling Gun fire in the trenches of WW1 or that had to endure the Great Depression and WW2. Vietnam would be a cakewalk for those generations.

Watch any good documentary about WW1 and the conditions of soldiers’ lives  back then and you will never complain about your life again. 
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