So I've read a book on the Baby Boomers and their history, and it brought fresh to my mind the divide between the Boomers and their parents. Their parents had gone through a World War and a Depression. They were more conservative, they had grown up with less or nothing and had to save for the war effort and so they saved their money up and planned for the future and tried to be respectable, and nearly every man had gone into the battlefield and served his country and everyone else stayed home and conserved and worked for the war effort. It was their America, right or wrong, you couldn't say a word against America, and you were supposed to spoil your kids.
Meanwhile, the Boomers hadn't gone through a World War or Depression. They were more open to criticizing things and the idea that just because they did didn't mean they hated America. They were spoiled and comforted far more than their parents so they were looser in lifestyle, and they didn't have a World War so they didn't have to save up and conserve, and it wasn't the idea of their parents in WW2 that if they nations calls you up, you go, but rather for Vietnam it was that if they didn't want to go or didn't think it was right, they didn't go. It's just a completely different psychology, and they grew up in two different generations.
So what if the Baby Boomers, like their parents, had to deal with a World War in the 50's or 60's? I have no idea if this will get a single response, but I think it's interesting because it deals with how a generation views something, and that really is to me the most important part of history.