Our favorite generation is turning 60

"America's idealists define their generation in myriad ways. For Greg Brune it was taking shrapnel in the back along a muddy river near Saigon. For Becky Mocherman it was about the changing role of women and watching Neil Armstrong take a stroll on the moon. And for Cecil B. Thomas Jr. -- who grew up in the deep south in a family of black sharecroppers -- it was walking up to a Dairy Queen in Paragould, Ark., to be met by a sign that said "no n--- allowed." These are the faces and experiences of the baby boomer generation. The faces of Vietnam. The faces of civil rights. And the faces of outspoken idealism. These are also faces that are growing older." Southeast Missourian SEMissoourian.com