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<blockquote data-quote="TedKennedy" data-source="post: 4165897" data-attributes="member: 25419">Which generation decided to hand out participation trophies for their precious children?Being born in 65 I&#039;m just out of the Boomer category, but I&#039;d say culturally, Oklahoma may extend that &quot;Boomer&quot; slot a bit. Definitely went to schools that had Greatest Generation teachers, WW2 vets. and most had very old-fashioned values. Very different&nbsp; culture by the time I got to high school. Lotsa liberals, Vietnam vets, next generation of teachers. They knew the system was BS in a lot of ways, tried to convince us that it was all wrong. As in most things, there&#039;s some truth in both versions. Talking to guys that went to the same high school only a few years later, things really went south in the late 80s. There were some pretty famous political guys in the 1960s that warned us about the direction the country was going. They are pretty much held up as bad guys now, but they were damn sure right. Stand Up For America!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TedKennedy, post: 4165897, member: 25419"] Which generation decided to hand out participation trophies for their precious children? Being born in 65 I'm just out of the Boomer category, but I'd say culturally, Oklahoma may extend that "Boomer" slot a bit. Definitely went to schools that had Greatest Generation teachers, WW2 vets. and most had very old-fashioned values. Very different culture by the time I got to high school. Lotsa liberals, Vietnam vets, next generation of teachers. They knew the system was BS in a lot of ways, tried to convince us that it was all wrong. As in most things, there's some truth in both versions. Talking to guys that went to the same high school only a few years later, things really went south in the late 80s. There were some pretty famous political guys in the 1960s that warned us about the direction the country was going. They are pretty much held up as bad guys now, but they were damn sure right. Stand Up For America! [/QUOTE]

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