Reply #73: It's "ugly and sad" ...agree. But not all the boomers were "flower

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children" smoking their way into "nirvana." Many had families and children (some due to the draft...like Cheney folk) who had to make a life on their own. The fact that Cheney "made good" shouldn't penalize the rest of the boomers who weren't folicking in Haight-Ashbury or stoned with the Stones in Woodstock.

Much had been vilified about everyone of "that time." I put it up to the MEDIA who characterized a whole generation with their paint brushes of "many colors" rather than the reallity of the "Boomers" I've known who where living very ordinary lives trying to "work at a job, and raise children in the best way they could."

So much is attributed in blame to the "Boomers" and yet few go "behind the scenes to see who the rest were..and how they lived during that time." JMHO...here...maybe I should write a book..but I was a "tweener" with a foot in both camps...maybe a great book from those of us who are "silent." :shrug: