Boomers are nothing special. The generations they leave behind will spend their lives suffering from and trying to clean up the messes they left us.
Like most things, to appreciate something, you had to be there. No civil rights so you saw black kids get beat up for no reason. No OSHA or EPA so you AND the environment were in danger from the workplace. An undeclared war where your friends or neighbors came home in a box-and you could be drafted to fight but not vote. A college semester shut down due to mounting protests where you got beat or shot-not filmed. Yes you had the worse scum come out like DaNang Dick Blumenthal senator from CT who used college deferment to dodge the draft, then when that stopped and they had a lottery, he hid in the National guard, and then lied about serving in Viet Nam. Yes, he is the same twerp who says"I believe Dr. Ford", but says Barr is lying-of course Dick IS an expert on lying. Point being all generations are special and have heroes and goats.