[prof.h.mandingo]

My generation had “skin” in the game. It is amazing how getting drafted to fight in Nam focuses ones mind. Earlier we were hiding under desks to survive a nuclear strike. Many of us paid attention as it was truly life or death. Kids today,could care less as they don’t have any clue something bad is just down the road.

[Netz]

The Boomers grew up with the Civil Defense exercises in the classroom. Vietnam was a rude awakening. Those that served, (I salute you, Sir, I was too young) were spit upon by ignorant Lefties. Many Boomers were focused while many were in the Hashish-Hait-Ashbury Fog. Yet, there was a caring, a desire to be involved no matter where you stood on the political spectrum. Today? Due to extreme leisure, gluttony, short term gratification, we are blind and fat. Something has to change...one would have thought that 9/11 would have done that, but it didn't. We went from a war footing to having our scrotum's searched by a TSA official...