--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "wayback71" <wayback71@> 
wrote:
> <snip>
> > The current younger generation in college now is not
> > only career minded- but also service minded, as in
> > volunteering and "doing good deeds."  Much more so
> > than the Boomers, who wanted to do good by meditating,
> > getting doped up, refusing to go to war.
> 
> Actually, the boomers were *very* service-minded.  Ever
> hear of the Peace Corps?  Ever hear of the civil rights
> movement?  There was all kinds of grassroots volunteer
> activity as well, running soup kitchens, caring for the
> homeless, advocating for the poor, and so on.
> 
> Plus which, there's a trend today for boomer retirees to
> take on second "careers" in various areas of volunteer
> service, since they're more financially secure and 
> generally in better health than previous generations were
> at their age.>>>

Totally true.
Look at Richard Branson, Bill Gates in the news again yesterday for 
philanthropy. You cannot get more of a baby boomer type than Richard 
Branson.
LiveAid was mostly  boomer thing started by Bob Geldof in about 
1984. 
Plus the boomers helped to stop the stupid republican war in 
Vietnam, (a conflict for which there was at least some reasonable 
logic in the beginning --- unlike the current irrational arrogant 
historical strategic mistake quagmire in Iraq.)

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