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I'd say I was pretty lucky to be born in 1966.  I was too young to be drafted into the Vietnam war and too old to consider serving in Iraqi Freedom.  My generation focused on work-life balance and had enough money to buy a house and save for retirement.  Overall, if I'm honest I'm pretty soft in many ways. But I worry about my kids future all the time: the risk of war; diminishing influence of religion; political divisiveness; evils of social media/porn; the biases of media outlets; the list is long.  I don't think todays generation has it easy at all.



Interesting, I was born in 1969 same generation. I would have been comfortable arguing that ours was the last generation that wasn't coddled, was sent out to play for the day without needing to check in or be worried about it, was trained to crush the world because that is what America does, understood what the cold war was and meant and why it had to be won and so forth....the people in my generation at least that I associate with have struggled with work life balance and many have raised kids to soft to effectively compete. I guess experiences vary.

I did my best to raise 2 well rounded kids who are prepared to go crush the world because that is they are supposed to do. I also worry about today generation but that is because I believe to many of them are soft or worse....I think baseball people are typically in the upper percentiles of success the general rank and file are way way behind.

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