That's absurd. rj mentioned Vietnam - let me elaborate. The vast majority of the 58,000 names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial were boomers. In total, 10,000,000 boomers (40% of the male boomer population) served in the armed forces. I graduated from HS in 1967. From 1964 on, I worried about being sent to Vietnam. In my senior year, I knew many classmates who were scared shitless about not being smart enough or having the funds to go to college. They correctly knew that they were draft fodder. On the day I graduated I found out that an older friend from HS had been killed in Vietnam.
I took ROTC at Wake only because I figured it would be better to have more training when I got sent over there. I quit ROTC after my sophomore year and considered escaping to Canada when I heard that my ROTC platoon leader and my physics lab partner had been killed in Vietnam. Imagine sitting around one night in late 1969 when the first draft lottery was held, the results of which would decide the likelihood that you would get drafted. One of my friends drew #366 - another one drew #1 (he left school the next day to save his parents his tuition cost). I got #111, which felt like a slow death.
Even though I couldn't get a job after graduating from Wake due to my draft number, I was one of the lucky ones. As it was, I woke up every fucking day after my draft physical wondering if it was the day I'd get my draft notice. When Nixon called a delay in drafting in late September (one of the few things that mother fucker did right), I was no doubt less than a week away from being drafted as my local Selective Service station was drafting #110-125 in September. I wasn't in the clear until late December when Nixon decided to hold back on the draft until 4/72.
I personally lost 6 friends in Vietnam - not guys just I knew of - real friends. Three others came back with what we now call PTSD. All became alcoholics and two were married and divorced multiple times. All are still having nightmares over what they endured.
You don't know shit about what boomers around my age went through as young adults.