Sweet! I'm a Baby Boomer by 6 days!!!
Hey, get off your butts and start working, GenX and GenYers!!!! D'you think my Social Security is going to pay for itself???
How about those of us raised in "backwards" conditions in rural America?
I've read more than one critical essay about the "Greatest Generation", and how real and actual sacrifice was also borne by a shocking minority, while the majority saw it as a "great adventure" and were relatively untouched by the negative aspects of WWII.
Like the Army recruiting slogan used to say, "Every Generation Has Its Heroes."
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