Rogers60

The Class of Rogers 1960 might be described as the Three Wars Generation. We were born in the early stages of World War II, the earliest of "war babies". Our fathers, who may have been in that war in various ways may have been in the interim war, not officially called a war by the Truman administration, rather a "conflict"--the Korean Conflict. In that period, 1950-53,we were old enough to know there was a war going on, seeing troop trains go through towns, B36 bombers flying above Spokane from Fairchild AFB.  We also lived through the political/economic system war, the Cold War, which brought fears of air raids, Chinese or Russian attacks on our country. We all were in the generation that had air raid drills in school, crawling under desks or tables or going to basements. Then, in the tri-war period of our school years, some of us in our late college years were involved in Vietnam, going from college or post-high school jobs, or being in the military because we were also in the draft generation.

 

We Were There: 3 wars, satellites in space, a war-hero Allied Commander, Ike, being our president for 8 years and a Navy hero from World War II, Jack Kennedy, following him. Constant fears of communism, spies. Racial problems when the civil rights era really began, which involved some violence.  Our generation of the 1950s has been called the "Silent Generation." Were we? We were certainly different than that generation that followed in the late 60s: the Protest Generation.