This Was Not the Boomers’ Greatest Failure
You can’t fault us for the Vietnam war
1 min readDec 6, 2021
A writer commented after one of my articles that the Boomers’ greatest failure was the Vietnam war. This aligns with a New York Times piece describing Vietnam as The Baby Boomers’ War. But as a baby boomer who lived through it, I disagree. Baby boomers, who were teenagers and young adults at the time, did not start it…