Students Blamed for Trashed Camp

toedtoes wrote:

nickthehunter wrote:
You all act like nothing like that happened when you were kids. It did. I can sight you a whole raft of incidents from 50 and 100 years ago just as bad or worse then this incident. So many posts blaming the todays kids as being something worse than what is really going on. Nothing has changed, it's still the "many" getting blamed for what a "few" do.

X2. It's great that so many here were brought up "properly" and have "respect" and so on. But there have been just as many incidents like this caused by people of YOUR generation (insert any generation here).

I think the both of you might remember that those of us brought up in the late 50's and 60's were THE MOST MALIGNED and criticized and often despised generation of probably all of American history.

Long hair, disrespect of authority, anti-war demonstrations, the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) The Black Panthers, Hippies, Yippies et al. So your complaints of being criticized by us for bad manners ring hollow to our ears.

And Yes we too were lumped together as a whole for purposes of criticism. Remember if you will a little history; Kent State a peaceful anti war demonstration...US college kids killed by our own National Guard troops...afterwords some people interviewed for the CBS evening news said "They deserved it".

So please dont cry too loudly of how we are maligning YOU unfairly. We have been there for real and with real bullets, police batons and attack dogs.

Some of these old Codgers who write here forget our own history but not me. But I still maintain there is a real diminution of manners in the last 50 years as a civil society overall just in daily person to person relations and in incidents like the one above.

PS and Oh yea we left a hell of a mess at Woodstock too.