OK, boomers, welcome to the other side of the generation gap
by Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency
Nov 08, 2019
3 minutes
Back in 1965, only a couple of years after the term "baby boomer" caught on as a label for the generation born in the wake of World War II, one 17-year-old high school newspaper columnist tried to explain his generation to his skeptical elders:
"Although we still have to face our responsibilities someday," he wrote, "our first impulse is to turn our backs and form a second society of our own. Someday we shall know for whom
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