My Generation

I am of the 1960's and 70's.  I came of age at the height of the Vietnam War.  I watched as the rich kids marched, fought with the police, smoked weed, took LSD, and dodged the draft.  I watched the Vietnam War unfold on television.  I watched our men die.  I watched it all.  And I watched as those rich kids cursed the troops.  I watched as Jane Fonda climbed on that Viet Cong tank in Hanoi while our troops were locked in pits and tortured on a regular basis.  I watched as she returned and nothing happened to her.  She was not tried for treason.  Nothing.  I watched as our troops came home in body bags and their bodies were used to smuggle drugs out of Vietnam and into the United States.  I watched and held my breath when the draft lottery was shown in 1969.  I am assuming that this draft lottery was instituted to stop Daddy Warbucks from bribing the draft board to put someone else in front of his little darling so his little darling could roll in drugs and screw his brains out in the free sex movement. 

And then they came home.  The came home to a nation calling them baby killers and spitting on them.  I watched as they suffered PTSD.  And this is my generation. 

I watched those who cause so much trouble in the 60's and 70's enter the 80's and turn callous and greedy with no regard for the country or anything except themselves.  I watched as they put their kids in private schools because they didn't want them rubbing elbows with the riff raff.  I watched as they destroyed the Unions, offshored jobs, imported illegals to work under the table for less than they would have to pay a citizen.  And I watched them raise kids just like them.  There was a time when the elite were expected to enter the military.  It was a duty.  My generation saw no duty to anyone except themselves and their bank accounts.My generation has done nothing, nothing except destroy the country.  I see no redeeming qualities in them.  And now they are running the country.  If we survive my generation, it will take our children and grandchildren generations to recover.  The baby boomer generation has been and is still totally useless.  And I am ashamed to be a part of that generation.