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It
wasn't easy being a boomer kid but it was one hell of a ride!! I wouldn't trade
a second of it.
Indigo Nights wrote:
> I don't think I can
concur that it's getting worse.
> There are, in fact, appalling things
that are ongoing,
> sort of symptomology of the pandemic of
violence
> prevalent in our society.
>
> But every generation
seems to have sort of horizontal
> thinking. They can see no further
than what was on
> the horizon during their lifetime.
>
> It
wasn't easy being a Boomer kid. Your friends and
> classmates went
off to war in Viet Nam (a police
> action, never a declared war) or
undeclared actions in
> Cambodia, without choice, and others left for
Canada
> after chanting hell no, we won't go. Those who
served
> came home in pieces, or with PTSD, or in body bags to
> an
ungrateful nation.
>
> Think Kent State and watching your peer group
get shot
> by the government on a college campus--or spied on and
>
reported as a traitor to our country for simply
>
dissenting.
>
> How about don't trust anyone over 30, and living in
a
> J. Edgar Hoover era (well, I suspect an Ashcroft era
> may come
close, what with spying on dissenting
> individuals but that's for a
political forum)?
>
> Students for a Democratic Society, Dr. Leary
and the
> LSD crowd, Woodstock, Civil Rights struggles, George
>
Wallace, and the Watts Riots. Angela Davis, the Black
> Panthers,
and Stokley Carmichael (can I get a "Right
> On, My Brother"? Power to the
People!), Malcom X and
> Dr. King.
>
> Mario at Berkeley and
the Chicago Seven. Jane Fonda
> and Hanoi.
>
>
Assassination of two Kennedys and a King. The suicide
> of Marilyn
(Monroe--not Manson), Castro's Cuba and the
> Bay of Pigs, the death of
Che, that "Commie Pinko"
> Kruschev and his infamous shoe, the Berlin
Wall, and
> the disgrace of Thomas Eagleton when running for high
>
office simply because he had suffered from depression.
>
> Getting
sent home from school if your dress didn't
> meet the middle of your knee,
and your hair got cut by
> your teacher if it touched your ears.
Couldn't vote
> until 21. Great dissension between the young and
the
> "Silent Majority." God was dead, and the most fatal
>
sin of all was apathy!
>
> LBJ and his belly scar. Burning the
bra for women's
> rights. Fighting for Roe v. Wade (and with that
I'm
> not inviting debate on the pros or cons of abortion,
> so
please don't start). The inaccessibility of birth
> control.
Pregnant teens were rushed off to distant
> areas, hushed up, and
compelled to relinquish lest
> they shame their family and left with
lifelong wounds
> instead of kept at home or termination of
pregnancy.
>
> We were the group following Happy Days and there
was
> much tumult throughout our nation. When they did
the
> remake of "What's Going On" last year, they had to
> take the
words "Picket Signs" out of the songs because
> they were afraid kids of
today wouldn't even know what
> the hell that meant.
>
> But
we didn't go to Korea.
>
> Or to World War II.
>
> Or
survive the Holocaust or the Great Depression.
>
> Or World War
I.
>
> We had a better chance of living past 12 and not
being
> killed by influenza or whooping cough or small pox,
> but we
lived through vaccines for small pox and bear
> the ugly scars and saw our
friends fall ill to polio
> while we rushed to get first the series of
shots and
> then the sugar cubes.
>
> We froze during the Cold
War and had regular Civil
> Defense drills where you dove to the floor,
covered
> your head and hoped your ass didn't hang out in the
>
breeze because girls HAD to wear dresses to school.
>
> Did we have
it harder than kids today? Who can say?
> Did we have it harder than
our parents? Harder, I'm
> afraid is subjective.
>
> We
were the Make Love, Not War Generation that
> believed in Free Love and
lived to see the
> consequences come back to haunt in an era of AIDS
and
> HIV.
>
> So let's be careful about comparing
generations. It's
> probably not a fair thing to do.
>
>
--- Merri Pemberton <
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> > I think that
looking at Columbine, metal detectors
> > and drug dogs in
schools,
> > and knowing of a situation where a first grader
had
> > a pair of scissors,
> > gripped them in her hand with
the sharp point
> > directed at the other student
> > and
threatened to stab her- should give plenty
> > people reasons to say
that
> > this next generation is at least a little worse.
> >
Kids have even admitted that
> > they have much more to worry about
than when their
> > parents were growing up
> > e.g.
heightened school violence. When I was a senior
> > in high school
(1994) we
> > started to see the police and drug dogs
patrolling
> > our school, and we were a
> > small town school
at that. So, it is getting worse.
> > Not every kid has serious
>
> problems, but the problems existing in this society
> > are having
a great impact
> > on the generations to come.
> >
>
> Sincerely,
> >
> > Merri
>
> =====
>
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