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2007-09-11 Home Front: Culture Wars
Six Years: A Great Generation Reports for Duty
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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-09-11 08:01|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ]  Top
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#1 Screw the boomers. Most self-important infantile generation of Americans ever. Glad theya re starting to die off.
Posted by OldSpook 2007-09-11 09:34||   2007-09-11 09:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Amen Spook. Bunch of selfish, self serving infants that never grew up from the summer of burnout love.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2007-09-11 10:02||   2007-09-11 10:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Dittos.
Posted by Excalibur 2007-09-11 10:05||   2007-09-11 10:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Just think...the 18-year olds enlisting from high school today were only 12 when the Towers died.

Let's strive to be worthy of their faith in us.
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2007-09-11 10:45||   2007-09-11 10:45|| Front Page Top

#5 The left is not worthy of them. We're not worthy of them either, unless we earnestly contend for the truth, and defeat the left's mental disorder at every opportunity.
Posted by mcsegeek1 2007-09-11 14:02||   2007-09-11 14:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Interesting: Navy and AF least vulnerable 100% but Army and Marines most vulnerable 105 and 106%. Booming economy, easy entrance to university (compared to my days), lots of employment opportunity (at least where I live) and we still can get these kids (I recognize some are older) to commit. Plus they will get something solid, unyielding and memorable out it also - self-discipline, honor and integrity plus the ability to put a No. 12 size hole right between the eyes of a muzzie from 150 yards.
Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back!  2007-09-11 14:32||   2007-09-11 14:32|| Front Page Top

#7 The combat arms assignments get over-subscribed every year now at West Point. Some take on extra service length to get them. Includes females who want attack helo pilot assignments.
Posted by lotp 2007-09-11 15:27||   2007-09-11 15:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, Old Spook, screw me. I guess I do deserve it - never did serve my country (though I certainly never refused to.) But I would do it today, except for being 50-something, with bad valves & kidneys (let's hope we don't get so desperate that I'm needed, but my eyes are ok and I don't shake, and my gun safe is stocked.)
Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore  2007-09-11 19:29||   2007-09-11 19:29|| Front Page Top

#9 OS, as a generalization - true enough.

But don't dismiss those of us who served during the cold war years, whose marriages went to hell while one member sat in missile silos with the codes ready or flew interdiction over Iraq while the Euros drilled holes in the sanctions and got fat off the oil monies that flowed out. Or who served in Bosnia and Desert Storm.

Or (as I know you don't) those who served in low profile jobs in unmarked places.

Or their spouses who supported them and raise the familiy often without them. They served too, in a small way.
Posted by lotp 2007-09-11 19:33||   2007-09-11 19:33|| Front Page Top

#10 And who gave up great job opportunities in the .com years only to be RIFFed by Clinton, sometimes at the 18 year point.

It was hell on social life with the rest of our generation, too.
Posted by lotp 2007-09-11 19:37||   2007-09-11 19:37|| Front Page Top

#11  just sayin' ....
Posted by lotp 2007-09-11 19:37||   2007-09-11 19:37|| Front Page Top

#12 lotp,

I don't think the boomers you're talking about are the same ones OS and I are referring to. If they were, we wouldn't be in this mess. And frankly, the last 40 years wouldn't have been nearly as miserable. But this generation looks to be of better stuff. Let's hope so. Our future depends on it.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-09-11 19:54||   2007-09-11 19:54|| Front Page Top

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