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The U.S. Census Bureau considers a BABY BOOMER
to be someone born during the demographic birth boom
between 1946 and 1964.
If you were born after this time, enter at your own risk!
Our ideals, appreciations and values may differ.
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Baby Boomer #1 (born from circa 1946 to 1955), the young cohort who epitomized the cultural change of the sixties. Memorable events: assassinations of JFK, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr., political unrest, walk on the moon, risk of the draft into the Vietnam War, anti-war protests, social experimentation, sexual freedom, civil rights movement, environmental movement, women's movement, protests and riots, mainstream rock from the Beatles to Jimi Hendrix experimentation with various intoxicating recreational substances.
Baby Boomer #2 or Generation Jones (born from circa 1956 to 1964)
Memorable events: Watergate, Nixon resigns, the Cold War, the oil embargo, raging inflation, gasoline shortages, Jimmy Carter's imposition of registration for the draft, punk or new wave from Deborah Harry and techno pop to Annie Lennox and MTV.
(information from Wikipedia.com) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomer#Definition
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Boomers Only
