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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]

If you yourself didn't have any older siblings who were drafted or might have been drafted, then from your child's point of view, of course "nobody ever talked about the draft or the war."[/quote]

Pay attention. Not even [i]my friends who did have older siblings[/i] talked about it.[/quote]

Why do you think that is, considering the war only ended in 1975?  Were you in an affluent neighborhood where young men could avoid the draft?[/quote]

The last draft was 1972.  If you were born in 1962, you were ten years of age for the last draft call. How many ten-year olds were thinking about getting a draft letter eight years in the future?[/quote]

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