When I was driving in 1996 through rural Maryland, I stopped at a diner. I saw some interesting things. The kids looked well; the old people looked well; but the middle-aged people looked sick and haggard.

The impression I got was that these people were being worked to death. And I am not comfortable with that state of affairs.

Now there are many people who are against baby boomers; and I don’t like that trend. I have known many baby boomers who were impressive people.. One claim I’ve heard about that generation is that they were all disgusting. Don’t tell that to the baby boomers I know.

We will see the good and the bad in every generation. No generation owns good, and no generation owns evil. There are many people who idolize the World War II generation. Sure they fought the war; but they also fought the war for the other side. And I have known a number of children raised by World War II generation who experienced severe abuse from their parents. Abuse such as being raped every day since age 3 or being beaten to clinical death.

Are baby boomers bad? As in any generation, some are and some aren’t. Both World War II generation and the baby boomers had valid ideals. That does not however mean that all of them were good.

My grandmother was a Communist, and my mother wanted to immigrate to America. Imagine two strong-minded women with completely incompatible beliefs, and one is the mother and the other is the daughter. Both World War II generation and baby boomers had strong will. And that means, recipe for endless conflict between the two.

I want to see a viable legacy both for World War II generation and baby boom generation. Both have worked hard enough. The people who demonize baby boomers are wrong. There are many good people in that generation. And I want to see these people appreciated rather than worked to death.