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Baby Boomers

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Howler

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19. Sorry I'm so late to check in!
Fri Dec 30, 2011, 03:58 PM
Dec 2011

I was born in 1959 in Japan. I'm an airforce brat! LOL!
I don't think our generation is "Spoiled" either.
We are a very hardworking generation that was and for some of us still willing to stand up and fight for a better society.
everything and I mean EVERYTHING the later generations have taken for granted and in some cases lost they had because we fought for it!!!
Just like the Greatest generation passed on a great legacy to the boomers.
It makes me sad and angry reading some of the posts lambasting the boomers. I feel those people are pretty much of lazy intellect and victims of short memory. by falling into a pretty obvious
Political and social/economic game designed to pit one against the other while the Rich people take ALL !!! Not to mention the first ones to complain about boomers were the very ones "Coddled" by the very boomers they are complaining about!

I too love our generations ability to straddle technical epocs while remembering a less technical childhoods when kids actually played outside no matter the weather!

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Boomers check in! [View all] marlakay Dec 2011 OP
My parents were old school. Kids should be seen but not heard. canoeist52 Dec 2011 #1
1952. We were also to be seen but not heard... pipi_k Dec 2011 #8
My God! I could have written that post! 1monster Dec 2011 #17
1949 OKNancy Dec 2011 #2
1957 here. WHo would have ever imagined those "Jesus freaks" of the 70s sufrommich Dec 2011 #3
That was my religious phase marlakay Dec 2011 #4
me too shanti Dec 2011 #13
1958! HappyMe Dec 2011 #5
born in 1953 Irishonly Dec 2011 #6
Hi! 1956 here..... NRaleighLiberal Dec 2011 #7
Definitely a boomer solara Dec 2011 #9
1949 here. greatauntoftriplets Dec 2011 #10
1959 LiberalAndProud Dec 2011 #11
1955 here shanti Dec 2011 #12
1948. SheilaT Dec 2011 #14
1956 Maccagirl Dec 2011 #15
1948 sinkingfeeling Dec 2011 #16
1946, and if someone wants to blame me for something JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2011 #18
Sorry I'm so late to check in! Howler Dec 2011 #19
another air force brat! shanti Jan 2012 #20
Hi Shanti!!!! :) Howler Jan 2012 #21
i do remember tachikowa! shanti Jan 2012 #22
OH! HO! HO! Howler Jan 2012 #23
1957 Shagman Jan 2012 #24
1954 dajoki Jan 2012 #25
1946 - Our phone number was 12J. lamp_shade Feb 2012 #26
1950 Waiting For Everyman Mar 2012 #27
That common cultural experience probably annabanana Mar 2012 #29
'49er here annabanana Mar 2012 #28
Me too....November, 1949. whathehell Aug 2012 #33
Nov 25 (Sag.) annabanana Aug 2012 #34
OMG...That's my birthday too! whathehell Aug 2012 #35
toujours gai kid annabanana Aug 2012 #36
Late boomer BDBoop Jul 2012 #30
Hi, if you subscribe to the groups and forums that interest you, sinkingfeeling Jul 2012 #31
1951 Jawja Aug 2012 #32
Circa 1958 ClueMan Sep 2012 #37
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