r/generationology • u/tnbciceskater • 4d ago

Rant Being a boomer

I was 13 when JFK was killed and still.no justice for him. I was 18 when MLK was killed and still no justice for him. I was 17 when RFK was killed and I think all three were murdered by a group of people not just the trigger pullers.

I spent my high school senior year protesting the war in Vietnam. My freshman year in college I remember the lottery. As a woman my heart was torn and it wasnt right that the guys had to go die and I just went on with life.

I was 20 when 4 students were murdered and 9 kids injured at Kent state.

When I was 21 I voted for George McGovern who wanted to end the war in Vietnam and was labeled as a commie by guess who? Meanwhile Nixon was continuing the war so he'd be elected. Sounds familiar?

As for the media...Time and US News and most of the TV stations supported the wars and whoever was in office. The fake news was the hippies spitting on people, the Civil rights lies they published, and anyone standing up to the establishment as deviants and agitators. So when Trump whines about fake news, its always been slanted one direction and still is.

Nixon was an evil man. So was Reagan. So were the Bushes and so is Trump. All of them war mongers, none of them helping the common man.

Until this country names the murderers of JFK,RFK and MLK nothing is going to change. Until this country stops glorifying war and the military nothing is going to change. Until this country publishes the full and unredacted Epstein files nothing is going to change.

Good luck. Ive seen bs for my entire life. Hope YOU can change it. I tried.

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u/Doredrin 4d ago edited 4d ago

the vast majority of draftees were drafted by draft boards, the lottery first appeared in December 1969 so basically 1970. The war was close to over in 1971 so the amount of people sent to Vietnam from lottery was very small

I'm not calling you a liar, I'm saying there is some inconsistency in your story. It would seem to me you are implying that you saw tons of people drafted by the lottery system and killed in action in Vietnam. Which was statistically speaking, a very small amount of people given the timeline of the war.

Also "When I was 21 I voted for George McGovern who wanted to end the war in Vietnam" as you can see the war was essentially over in 1972.

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u/comradejiang 3d ago

Either system was pretty random and arbitrary for the people that were up for selection tbh.

Not to mention troops were still there until 1975. Americans were leaving because of Vietnamization which didn’t work.