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Originally Posted by ilovetv
I don't think Gracie was claiming her generation had cornered the market on "moral high ground". What I saw in her post, because I've experienced it, is that our parents and grandparents were tough on crime, managed and raised the kids with Tough Love before it had a name other than "a damn good kick in the pants", it didn't take a master's or PhD in psychology to raise a self-supporting, law-abiding and caring citizen, and we saw some of the juvenile delinquents-in-the-making turn around and do a 180 because a caring disciplinarian adult in their life got thru to them that they were headed for prison or a life of addiction hell.
And by the way, the ones in VietNam era---MY generation--who defied the POLITICIANS who created that mess--and became pot- and heroin-addicted hippies......
The ones who got their butts punished at home by two caring parents turned out to be college educated or steady and dependable tradesmen, model citizens. But the ones whose parents did not CARE enough to get them off the streets and out of cars driven drunk....are either dead by age 50 or are dying of drugs and alcohol combined while filled cancer, emphysema, liver failure, COPD, etc.....and are collecting government (taxpayer-funded) disability and Medicare.
Their protests against the VietNam war were not all that impressive in the long run, because they destroyed their previously brilliant minds and bodies with substance abuse and addiction, and are now living off the government they hated as college students but love now because of the check and housing they get from it.
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Wow, quite a bit of generalization about the anti-war movement, untrue to say the least. To characterize the peace movement as a bunch of people who became pot and heroin addicted, well what can one say.
Many in the peace movement were students, mothers, or anti-establishment hippies, but there was also involvement from many other groups, including educators, clergy, academics, journalists, lawyers, physicians (such as Benjamin Spock), military veterans, and ordinary Americans. On October 15, 1969, the Vietnam Moratorium attracted millions of Americans. To imply that all these peace loving Americans became heroin addicts mooching off the government is just laughable.