"I prefer to think of the boomers as the generation that discovered everything and learned nothing"
I think of them as our last educated, patriotic generation.
The teacher's union didn't really gain control until the late 60s, which since then we have seen a dumbing down of America, and more than seven million Americans men enlisted in the military between 1960 and 1975, with another two million serving through the draft.
Good points, but the influence seems to be weighted by those who were radicalized and made the "long march" up through government and academia.
You are wrong, especially since you bring up the military service of the Boomers. The kids going into the military today are smarter, better educated and better soldiers than any we've ever had, and they are patriotic as all get out.
There's nothing wrong with lauding the sacrifice of those brave Boomer men, but most of today's soldiers went through those same public schools and still are, in the words of R. Lee "Gunny" Ermey, "ready to eat their own guts for this country."