The Impact of Vietnam on Generation X Carry on, my wayward son There'll be peace when you are done Lay your weary head to rest Don't you cry no more... Kansas, 1976 The 50th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon was April 30. To mark the occassion, Netflix released...
Filmmaker Looking for Teens in 1989 Film Featuring Children of Vietnam Vets
In 1989 filmmaker David Hoffman recorded a therapy session for Gen-Xers who shared stories about growing up with fathers who were Vietnam War veterans. The teenagers, all of whom appear to have been born in the late 1960s, were filmed at a church in St. Louis,...
Thanksgiving 1967: Family Sets A Place For “Our Sailor Boy Billy”
Thanksgiving 1967 Thanksgiving 1967, Billy's mom wrote a note and put it on the table next to her son's picture. It read, "The vacant chair for Billy, our sailor boy." Another note reads, "Thanksgiving to Huntleigh, 1967." These 35 mm slide images of Thanksgiving 1967...
When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Flannel (Parody)
When I am an old woman 👵🏻 I shall wear flannel with a Raspberry Beret that doesn't go, and has always suited me, and I shall spend my "entitlement" on Shasta sodas and fingerless gloves and Candie's 👡 sandals and say we've no money to spare for things made in China. I...
We Are Not The Lost Generation: The Gen X Essay That Went Viral Before We Said Things Went Viral
The following essay about Generation X, We Are Not A Lost Generation, was written during the late 1990s. It was first circulated via email and then later posted to numerous blogs and websites. The earliest record of it that I could find was a chat board where it was...
Daily Photo: Generation Amerasian Still Looking for Father
Sharing the history of Generation X, one photo, one day at a time. Click here to subscribe to the Daily Photo. If you would like to submit a special photo for possible publication, please email me, jenx1967 [at] gmail [dot] com. Many years ago -- probably 30 or more...
Who Is Generation Jones? A Micro-Generation Between Boomers, Xers
Who Is Generation Jones? Before Generation X came Generation Jones. This is the micro-generation between Baby Boomers and Generation X that was born during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Read on to learn more about this important generation in American life and...
The Douglas Coupland Gen X Comic Strip You’ve Probably Never Seen
The first Gen X Comic Strip was created by Douglas Coupland and Paul Rivoche in the late 1980s. Read on to learn more. In September 1987, two-and-a-half years before the publication of Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, Douglas Coupland wrote about...
Gen X We Didn’t Start The Fire Parody
This is not the first We Didn't Start the Fire parody I've come across, but it's the first I've seen for Generation X. It was published on YouTube in 2009 and features a guy named Patrick on Karaoke. The original song by Billy Joel spans 40 years of history,...
Christian Slater To Narrate Generation X On National Geographic
Consummate Gen-X bad boy Christian Slater will narrate Generation X on National Geographic. Yea! I've written about our lost generation of latchkey kids now in midlife for about nine years, so I'm pretty stoked about this news. You may recall that National Geographic...
Study on Generational Trauma: Effects Linger In Body Chemistry of Next Generation
A new study in the Journal of Biological Psychiatry illustrates how catastrophic events can alter our body chemistry and how these changes can be transmitted from one generation to the next. The study focuses on exposure to the Holocaust, but in relation to Generation...
5 Forgotten Protests of Generation X
The Children's March For Survival, 1972 On March 25, 1972, 30,000 people, most of them African-American school children, gathered on the streets of Washington D.C. to protest welfare reforms. The protest was called the Children's March for Survival. The kids...