We boomers also endured a variety of unnerving events: endless wars, sniper shootings, mass poisonings, terrorist bombings, exploding parcels, anthrax letters and far more free-roaming serial killers than today. We witnessed presidents & senators being assassinated, nuclear power plants blowing up, airplane hijackings and terror at the Olympics. Not to mention, we lived under the genuine threat of global devastation via nuclear war; we faced the prospect of Armageddon on a daily basis — top that, millennials!