As it is when someone writes an article they occassionally suffer from “FIMBFAC”, or “Fingers in Motion Before Facts are Checked”.

Dean Bartlett, a writer whom I read quite often, attempts to celebrate the “9/11 Generation”, and especially the bravery of this generation of americans who responded, but at the same time he slanders another generation – mine, and owes us all an apology and yes, a correction.

“In the 1960s, history called the Baby Boomers. They didn’t answer the phone.

Confronted with a generation-defining conflict, the cold war, the Boomers–those, at any rate, who came to be emblematic of their generation–took the opposite path from their parents during World War II. Sadly, the excesses of Woodstock became the face of the Boomers’ response to their moment of challenge. War protests where agitated youths derided American soldiers as baby-killers added no luster to their image.

Few of the leading lights of that generation joined the military. Most calculated how they could avoid military service, and their attitude rippled through the rest of the century. In the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s, military service didn’t occur to most young people as an option, let alone a duty.

But now, once again, history is calling. Fortunately, the present generation appears more reminiscent of their grandparents than their parents.”

Excuse me son (yes I’m old enough), but while we all can acknowledge that our generation did have it’s share of apathy and unrest (if Dean checked history this was not an anomaly with the boomers), many of us did serve – served proudly and died for this country, we did “Answer the phone” and did so proudly. I’m not talking only of Vietnam, but of ever conflict up to the current. Let’s not forget that many of the soldiers of the Iraq conflict were and are “Baby Boomers”. Let’s also not forget the “Baby Boomers” of Grenada, Desert Storm, Kosovo, Mogadishu and other conflicts of the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.

While I understand Dean’s point of of the 60′s liberal which infests our current political arena and uses our soldiers for their political agenda, he missed the mark in the presentation. As I too agree that liberals view our soldiers as “victims” of the current conflict intead of the catalysist of our success in the war on terror, I equally detest the degradation of the honor of we “Baby Boomers” who equally kept this country safe and free.