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re: Were boomers really that bad?
Posted on 8/3/25 at 6:58 pm to FightinTigersDammit
Posted on 8/3/25 at 6:58 pm to FightinTigersDammit
There are exceptions, but my father in law told me he actually felt sorry for some of the guys he ran into in Vietnam. He said some of those guys(who couldn’t get out of the war) could barely read and write. He said many were likely borderline mentally slow.
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Posted on 8/3/25 at 7:01 pm to Sofaking2
McNamara's 100,000. They tried letting in guys who were just below standards. I think they gave them more training, though. Not entirely successful.
Lt. Calley had to run through OCS school twice,I believe
Lt. Calley had to run through OCS school twice,I believe
Posted on 8/3/25 at 7:03 pm to Mushroom1968
Generations Born Current Ages
Millennials 1981 – 1996 29 – 44
Gen X 1965 – 1980 45 – 60
Boomers II (a/k/a Generation Jones)*
1955 – 1964 61 – 70
Boomers I* 1946 – 1954 71 – 79
Millennials 1981 – 1996 29 – 44
Gen X 1965 – 1980 45 – 60
Boomers II (a/k/a Generation Jones)*
1955 – 1964 61 – 70
Boomers I* 1946 – 1954 71 – 79
Posted on 8/3/25 at 7:04 pm to Sofaking2
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Most of the “boomers” we refer to went to college and got deferments
not as much as you believe
Posted on 8/3/25 at 7:10 pm to Mushroom1968
Classifying groups of people based on some arbitrary cut off birth year, then blaming the group for problems or praising them for accomplishments is hogwash.
Posted on 8/3/25 at 7:14 pm to Kafka
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I don't recall this "blame BBs for everything" 20-30 yrs ago
When they die off the young folks will just start blaming Gen X.
Posted on 8/3/25 at 7:27 pm to Mushroom1968
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Neither of my boomer parents had help from their parents once in adulthood. Both actually worked in HS to help with bills and groceries.
I'm 72 and officially a boomer and the above was my reality. My dad died when I was 8 and my mom, who was the typical 50's housewife had to suddenly go out and get a job with 3 young kids to raise. Those were hard times and thank goodness for family until things evened out.
I got my first official "get up and go to work" job when I was 13 and made minimum wage of $1.25 and hr. and that was working on weekends and a few days during the week. I forked over $15 a week to my mom to help pay with the bills and I used what was left to buy my own clothes and other necessities. What I had left went toward having some fun with friends.
There was no "generational wealth" passed down to me or my 2 sisters but we were taught to be independent and self sufficient and to not cry in our beer if things didn't go our way.
Posted on 8/3/25 at 7:33 pm to tiggerthetooth
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A small minority of boomers were drafted 8% of out 27 million eligible at the time of the draft.
They were the largest portion of those drafted, however, and the 27 million was all eligible draftees, some of whom were not boomers.
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2.2 million boomers were drafted for Vietnam
Again, that is the total number. The draft lottery initiated in 1969 affected people born from 1944 through 1950, then in 1970, people born in 1951, in 1971, people born in 1952, and so on. People born from 1946-1964 are considered boomers.
Posted on 8/3/25 at 7:34 pm to Mushroom1968
They were the generation that made the book “looking out for Number 1” a national best seller. It basically said take care of yourself and frick your kids and everyone else
Posted on 8/3/25 at 7:35 pm to Mushroom1968
We need a boomer board. Not for the boomers, but for the people who have a weird obsession with everything boomer.
ETA: If you're painting an entire generation with a broad brush you are a very weak minded person.
ETA: If you're painting an entire generation with a broad brush you are a very weak minded person.
This post was edited on 8/3/25 at 7:37 pm
Posted on 8/3/25 at 7:38 pm to Mushroom1968
Lots of Boomers dodged the draft by going to Canada, pretending to be Gay, pretending to be retarded and things like that. Some of them did all three and lived out their lives as retarded queers from Canada.
Well, you have to admire their determination, but, I say that's just overkill.
Well, you have to admire their determination, but, I say that's just overkill.
This post was edited on 8/3/25 at 7:39 pm
Posted on 8/3/25 at 7:42 pm to Champagne
Had there been a draft for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan I suspect the same thing would have happened as well.
Posted on 8/3/25 at 7:44 pm to Champagne
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Lots of Boomers dodged the draft by going to Canada, pretending to be Gay, pretending to be retarded and things like that. Some of them did all three and lived out their lives as retarded queers from Canada.
Some became President of the US.
Posted on 8/3/25 at 7:55 pm to Mushroom1968
So stupid and lazy to pick a group of people from a certain date range (boomers, gen x/z, millennials, etc…) and say they are responsible for this or that.
Please grow up…..
Please grow up…..
Posted on 8/3/25 at 8:01 pm to Mushroom1968
Can we stop with this generation bullshite?
There’s good people and bad people in all generations.
Frankly, since the war of northern aggression, this country has gone to the shitter.
Lincoln’s war grew the size of government tenfold and it only keeps growing.
Wilson, FDR, Truman, LBJ, Bush 43, Obama, and Biden all continued to blow up the size of the leviathan that is the federal government monumentally.
It’s not only them, every successive Congress and presidency since the tyrant Lincoln have all exploded the size of government.
Eta: I’ll add this, millennials and future generations will be the first generations in US history who will seem to be worse off than their predecessors. And I vehemently disagree with them being “lazy” or whatever. I believe it’s due to their futures being stolen from them. All the outsourcing of jobs, and influx of cheap labor, wages flattening out but prices of everything not.
I do think prior generations are to blame for that shite and I don’t really know how you can refute it.
There’s good people and bad people in all generations.
Frankly, since the war of northern aggression, this country has gone to the shitter.
Lincoln’s war grew the size of government tenfold and it only keeps growing.
Wilson, FDR, Truman, LBJ, Bush 43, Obama, and Biden all continued to blow up the size of the leviathan that is the federal government monumentally.
It’s not only them, every successive Congress and presidency since the tyrant Lincoln have all exploded the size of government.
Eta: I’ll add this, millennials and future generations will be the first generations in US history who will seem to be worse off than their predecessors. And I vehemently disagree with them being “lazy” or whatever. I believe it’s due to their futures being stolen from them. All the outsourcing of jobs, and influx of cheap labor, wages flattening out but prices of everything not.
I do think prior generations are to blame for that shite and I don’t really know how you can refute it.
This post was edited on 8/3/25 at 8:36 pm
Posted on 8/3/25 at 8:08 pm to tiggerthetooth
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2.2 million out of 27 million eligible. This doesnt include the boomers that were too young to be drafted.
There are way more boomers than the ones who were eligible to be drafted at the time of the Vietnam war.
As of 2014, there were an estimated 76 million boomers alive...so 2.2 million from 76 million is 2.89%.
Yeah well you don't get it one tiny bit. In those days everyone knew someone that was drafted, or sweating his nutts off he was gonna be. Everyone knew someone that was either KIA , MIA or a friend or relative that was suffering through that. The draft was on all our minds, even mine as a 12 year old kid. You could smell the fear, the angst and the anger in the air everywhere you went.
I'll never forget after my freshman year in high school watching the news and my Mom turning to me and saying you know if this war goes on much longer you could be drafted...
Posted on 8/3/25 at 8:30 pm to tiggerthetooth
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tiggerthetooth
you would cry and hide if you had to go to war
Posted on 8/3/25 at 8:46 pm to Ruston Trombone
your statements are right in line with my 20 year old grandson spouting nonsense. When you grow up and become a responsible person, perhaps you will understand what facts are. Till then stay off my thread
Posted on 8/3/25 at 8:53 pm to LegendInMyMind
I am a supporter of a boomer board to accumulate the Boomer fiction. It all boils down to penis envy by todays children.
Posted on 8/3/25 at 8:53 pm to Mushroom1968
FWIW, the welfare system was created in 1935….long before the boomers were born.
Believe me, you don’t have to feel sorry for the boomers….they worked their asses off and paid a hell of a lot of taxes along the way. Deficit spending is a relatively recent thing in politics.
Believe me, you don’t have to feel sorry for the boomers….they worked their asses off and paid a hell of a lot of taxes along the way. Deficit spending is a relatively recent thing in politics.
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