Boomers are providing less child care to their grandkids than other generations

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

121. You do realize that Vietnam

Wasn't the only or the last of futile US military endeavours resulting in the deaths of young people...right?

The Jones generation were the troops of Lebanon, the Contra wars, the first troops sent to corral the Latin American drug wars and the troops who suffered from various military buffoonery in Iraq and the Middle East--especially Desert Storm. Maybe the numbers didn't go as high as Vietnam, but they weren't zero, either.

I bet you don't even remember the Iraqi attack on the USS Stark, but I will never forget it because it killed one of my childhood friends. Another friend was part of its military rescue operation. Imagine how he felt, being there when what was left of his friend's body was collected up, and yet he was the one who volunteered to escort the remains home to a heartbroken mother.

When I was living in LA, a neighbourhood family lost their eldest son in the Beirut attack.

Thousands of families and the friends of service members who died in the 80s and early 90s know that pain, but don't even get 1/1000 of the support for their loss that other military members have gotten before and since. We're still fighting to get help for our generation's troops exposed to depleted uranium, which merits barely any attention compared to Agent Orange. In fact, we know for a fact how little concern anyone has about depleted uranium, because the military *STILL USES IT* in their weaponry.

Every time we turn around, our generation has been spat on in a way far worse than any of the whinging lies boomers told about being spat on.