Which is also my generation, the generation that served honorably and courageously in Vietnam. While you're lumping John McCain with the likes of Ayers and Dohrn, remember that there 2.5 million of us serving during Vietnam and 56,000 of the best we had lost there.
Chinstrap61a - Company G, 2nd Bn, 1st Marines 1967
“Which is also my generation, the generation that served honorably and courageously in Vietnam. While you’re lumping John McCain with the likes of Ayers and Dohrn, remember that there 2.5 million of us serving during Vietnam and 56,000 of the best we had lost there.”
That wasn’t intended to besmirch McCain but to slow this media driven attempt to create the “boomer” myth.
It seems you fell for it too, born too late to be involved in starting the Vietnam war the boomers lost 31,337 men in combat in Vietnam, while your generation lost 14,913 in combat there, I have to assume that the bulk of the 10,000 non combat deaths in Vietnam were mostly boomers as well.
When boomers have 9.4 million veterans, almost 40,000 dead in Vietnam and suffering casualties in every conflict since then, including our current wars, you should not be under the impression that Vietnam was not their war as far as the bulk of the fighting and dying goes.