Baby Boomers — that’s a lot of us — have so far been spared anything like the great challenges of the 20th century.
We had Vietnam, of course, and now there’s Iraq and Afghanistan, but stacked up against the millions of dead and the enormous sacrifices of the living during World War II those challenges seem and are small.
True, a grieving mother weeps no less now than a mother in 1945, but as a nation, as a generation, we’ve had it easy by comparison.
More recently, these last couple of years since the stock market went crazy, Boomers have had their Great Recession. Unemployment has shot up, revenues have come down, and the state of the economy seems uppermost in many minds.
Can our Great Recession be reasonably compared with the Great Depression? No, and for that simple fact, we should all be grateful.
