Re: My Generation
That "60's youth" is a lot more removed from me than it seems. I sometimes assume anyone older than me remembers when Kennedy was shot, but really, my mom was born in 1964. Kennedy was dead, Sylvia Plath was dead (hey, it matters to me, but you can pick whomever, you know what I'm saying). By the time my mother was the age I am now, it was, well, the 80s, and that just doesn't carry quite the historical weight.
It's definitely true that I don't feel as connected to history, especially WWII, as the previous few generations. Conspire, or other young whippersnappers, confirm?
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