NewYorkjoe Wrote:You stopped just one paragraph short.
"It can be argued that the defining event of baby boomers was the Vietnam War and the protest over the draft. Conscription in the United States ended in 1973 so anyone born after 1955 was not at risk. This argues for a ten year range 1946 to 1955 and this would fit the thirtysomething demographic covered by the TV show of the same name. This means that those born in the ten years 1956 to 1965 would be Generation X in the late 1980s and would be twenty something as a response."
A generation is generally considered to stretch across 20 years. However, the baby boom years, those resulting directly from the return of soldiers following the end of WWII and the Korean War, do not stretch across 20 years or 18 years (1946-1964). How can you consider someone a baby boomer who stares blankly when Howdy Doody is mentioned?
I did mention Generation X and the Slackers. Would you lump them in with the baby boomers when obviously their culture does not include protesting the Vietnam War, The Summer of Love, and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test?
If you Google long enough, you can find support for nearly any specious argument, but that does not make it right. I'll stand by the strict definition of the baby boom years, not a baby boom generation.
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NewYorkjoe
That paragraph continues to support my argument that 1953 was a baby boomer year.
Your original point was "No one born in the late '50s, much less the early '60s, can be considered a baby boomer. ... no one of any standing has ever suggested that the baby boom stretched beyond 1953; hence my remark that I was born on the near edge of the boom."
I've pretty much shown that to be utterly false. Now you've gone and tried to change the premise of your argument.
So with that, I vote to kill the thread and put it out of my misery.
This post was last modified: 01-27-2006, 10:07 AM by jimbow8.
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