I mispoke in my 2301 classes recently when I stated that the last WWI veteran had died. It was in fact the last female WWI veteran, but the point regarding generational politics is still valid.
It's a fact of life that we die eventually, and a fact of political life that living memory of key moments in history dies off as well. The voice of experience expires. All that's left is the written record and myth, for better or worse.
FYI: Here's a post from a few months back on living in a baby boomer's world.
