BABY BOOMERS

bORN out of the bombs and blasts of WWII

 

BABY BOOM ERS are the present generation of humans

who wondered worried and wanted to know

how people could go to war

how could humans kill humans

 

they devoured books and articles on the subject

and still they could not comprehend

the horror

and the will to inflict the horror

still

they read

they asked

they wondered

 

what caused Germany to follow that man with the funny mustache

 

WWI

 

when germany lost WWI it was punished

for losing

when germany lost WWI it was punished

becaused the winners wanted what germany had

when germany lost WWI the winners

stripped the nation and the people of everything

they were left with no self respect

no pieces to pick up

no self worth

neither financially nor emotionally

they were the bad guys

and the winners punished them with revenge

they took all the marbles

and beat them black and blue

 

and instead of leaving them dead

they were left

starving

for self worth

 

slowly, they, germany, rebuilt

slowly, their anger at having no illusion of self worth

festered

 

to paraphrase Lady Chatterly's Lover

 

'after the fair, the master beat the slave

and the slave beat the cow

and the cow went into the field to cry'

 

and the man with the funny mustache sold to a people

downtrodden with their face burried in the mud,

a reason to feel good about themselves

 

and someone to pick on

and they picked and picked and picked

 

and the poverty lingered

and the madness spread

 

to paraphrase Charles Dickens

 

'beware this child

this child is ignorance

and beware this child

this child is want'

 

and still,

the BABY BOOMERS

did not understand

 

time passed

life went on

 

the boomers lived the love age of Acquarius

with the flowers and long hair

 

the peaceniks or is it peacenicks

peaceniks like sputnik

 

and the Russians won the race to space

and the cold war was on

 

and the separated germany's

part of the punishment for losing the war,

although it was stated

punishment for starting the war

 

lived walls apart

until the actor/president

played the part of challenger/knight in shining armour.

 

Japan meanwhile, was punished

with the shock and awe treatment

favored by the red white and blue

 

hitting them below the belt

with an anger and rage

so uncontrolled

it wiped out two cities

 

And because there must have been so much guilt

the red white and blue

gave japan the technology

to do cheaply mass produce

what the red white and blue

used to do

 

And still,

the BABY BOOMERS

in their naievity(sp?)

could not and would not believe

how could war happen

 

Then,

there were the war crimes trials

at

NUREMBERG

 

Richard W. Sonnenfeldt, the Chief American Interpreter

said of those on trial, "They were average guys."

 

And thinking about all the people involved,

there was a movie

showing the trial of a woman

who

because she needed a job

became a warden for female prisoners

 

and it was her responsibility to guard the prisoners

and when a fire broke out where the women were

held,

 

this person, did not unlock the door

because it was her responsibility

to guard the women

to prevent their escape,

her comment was,

"I was just doing my job."

 

In the book,

"Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds"

there is the tale of the "Tulipomania"

where it is reported that in 1637 Holland

someone bid twelve acres of land for one rare tulip bulb.

 

The Boomers

after all their research

finally

resolved

 the why ,

because they wanted to.

 

Because they wanted to millions lost their lives. resources were squandered

and society bears the shame for those who lost control,

because they wanted to.