re: Newsweek - OK, Millennial: Boomers Are the Greatest Generation

I'm not a boomer but there is a part of me that wonders how the millennials- my own generation- and even the younger ones of today would have handled a draft and a war on the scale of Vietnam.

I know that a lot of them burned their cards or made up excuses not to go but hundreds of thousands of them actually went and thousands never came back. Again, I know it's not on the scale of the ww2 generation but I've always been amazed at how little the boomer generation complains about their war experience today. Younger people are always saying how there are wars in the ME but the only way you end up there is by volunteering, and hardly anyone does really. The boomers were drafted into one where they were losing 10,000 guys a year at the height of it, and a lot of them went, did their job, came home with no complaints. At least to me it really puts student loans and high housing costs in perspective. My father was in Vietnam though so maybe that's why I think this way.

Also fwiw I'm in my mid 30s and most of the people I went to high school and college with are doing ok. Their big complaint is that they're not doing quite as well as they thought they would, not that they're struggling or starving. They still feel lied to though and that leads to resentment that's palpable.