It has been my experience - personally and in discussion with other X'ers - that our role models; adult figures who inspired us as we grew up and came of age - were not from the '60's generation' but rather were the parents of the boomers.
Our grandparents and others their age - Ronald Reagan; Pope John Paul II; Margaret Thacher, etc.,et.al. - were those who offered Gen X'ers a moral compass, an optimistic vision of the future, who spoke of duty and purpose and spoke of Western Civilization as something worth defending.
Good article.
Yes, I just thank God I grew up under "Silent Generation" parents! Whheeeewwww, no Hippies for me! Dodged that bullet!