THE GLOBE'S Dec. 16 endorsement of Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination says "at 46, he would be the first post-baby-boom president."
Obama was born in 1961, three years before the end of the baby boom.
Once again, those of us born too late to enjoy the tumult and changes and vigor of the 1960s and early '70s - those born in the second half of the boom - are statistically and socially neglected. Sociologists don't know where to place us; historians neglect us; cultural critics focus on the other boomers and those born in Generations X and Y. Now, a major newspaper cannot even get our era right.
The boom was from 1946 to 1964. Obama is a baby boomer, as am I, born in 1958.
DEBORAH SAN GABRIEL
Lynn
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