FI_RElater
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I prefer this version of Boomers....I think the life experence is different between Boomer I and Boomer II? (I'm a Boomer I) I think our parents were more involved in WWII.
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I tend to believe in the older age breakout--- "boomers" ending in '63, as that was the "end of camelot" (post JFK), which is a somewhat defining moment in history versus just a date (sort of like post-911 would be later). {I was still in elementary when he was shot... so boomer}
The one characteristic that would favor the Boomer 1 end age is the last year ('54) would have been the last to be potentially called up for Nam (or served, assuming age 18 entry), although the last years (52-54) never got called up. BTW, the actual number drawing was televised (I remember it); '75 was the actual last drawing, but was neither televised nor actually used. Still have my draft card from then, and you needed to show it to get your college scholarship back then, and later years didn't even have to sign up.
I agree the experiences were definitely different: early boomers tended to be entrenched in the good jobs by the time we got out, and "climbing the ladder" over them was almost impossible. We also were the ones where the defined pensions started being eliminated and replaced with other benefit plans, most of them far less generous.
We were more Jefferson Starship than Jefferson Airplane, more The Who than The Animals, and though we remember when the "White Album" came out it wasn't as significant to us. We were too late for the "Summer of Love", Woodstock was the same___ and our tape decks were cassette versus 8-track. We had the gas lines ('73) versus the gas wars of the earlier 60's (do remember them, just didn't have a need for gas).
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