Oh, I don't know.
That remark could also have been made by the generation that fought in WW I thinking the next one was too soft.
The boomers went to Vietnam and the ones I knew were pretty brave under fire.
Sure, there were some flower children, who wanted to enjoy all the privileges of living in this country while doing nothing to preserve it, only trash it, but they were the minority, not the majority.
I simply believe it isn't fair to condemn the whole because of a relative few.
JMO,
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