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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We had lots of student protests when I was in high school - - 70's in MoCo. I don't even remember what they were about ([b]the Vietnam War was over [/b]...) they probably were poorly executed, maybe not thought out too well BUT the important thing - BY FAR THE MOST IMPORTANT THING - is we were receiving the (unspoken) message from adults, our parents and the school administration, that our involvement mattered. We were not silenced.[b] We entered adulthood engaged and wanting to be active in our communities[/b].[/quote]

No, you entered adulthood entitled, spoiled and catered to, as if your every whim and feeling mattered and needed to be voiced.

And we, as a country, have been paying the price for this self-centered generation called Baby Boomers, ever since.[/quote]

Someone who entered high school after the Vietnam war was over is barely a baby boomer, if they are at all.  It is only in recent times that I've heard people born in the late 50s and early 60s called baby boomers. When I was growing up, Boomers were born between 1945 and 1955 and the term referred to kids whose parents had returned from serving in WWII. They were in their teens and twenties when I was a little kid, and my growing up years were very different than theirs.

People born in the early 60s had a very different growing up experience than the Boomers. 
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