The Baby Boomers

I can relate to your opinion of my generation, because I came to the same conclusion back about '61.
I was born in '52 to two Oakies who grew up choppin' and pickin' cottin in eastern Oklahoma. In '46 my dad went to go to work for Boeing Airplane Co. in Wichita. Before I came along he had been promoted to tooling inspector. He supervised the tool up for the B-52.
He raised me as he had been raised. I was taught to respect my elders, to do what I was told or I'd get the belt, and had a crewcut to the age of 16.
I was never given an allowance but Dad paid me to do chores for him. I didn't get paid for taking out the trash or doing dishes, but I mowed the lawn every week for a dollar, washed his car for a dollar, and cleaned the garage for another dollar. Three dollars a week. BIG money in '58.
He bought me a Daisy BB rifle when I turned eight and took me out into the woods and taught me proper firearm safety and usage.
My parents were Primitive Baptists and my three older sisters and I went to church every Sunday, mandatory.
I'm a babyboomer, but I'm not of the "ME" generation. I never was a hippie or drug user, and never cussed my entire life. I am a veteran of the USAF, '70-'74, 63rd MAW, 63rd AMS at Norton AFB. I have a single child, a daughter who is 34 and is a pediatric oncologist in San Diego. She is the best thing ever to come from me.

No, no "ME" crap for me. The true measure of a man's life is what he has done for others. I live by that.

Thank you for your interesting biography. I really enjoyed getting to know you a bit.

Glenn Flowers
Hesperia, CA

Thanks for the support. Raised in Maine where the values I now hold were instilled with the belt and the woodshed, I never realized until I was much older what my parents had instilled in me. I can relate to your background. I too got a BB gun, a Red Ryder, when I was a kid and a shotgun and a rifle when I was a teenager. I miss the winters I spent hunting and the summers I spent fishing.

I started this blog with the sole purpose of putting my thoughts down where I could review them myself and focus my beliefs. It is an added bonus to hear from others like yourself that share some of those beliefs.