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That's because we were only in our 40s and didn't need them.

And when we didn't need them, they weren't important.I just received a press release noting an alleged impending calamity in the airline industry.

We air travelers "will lose the services of an estimated 5,000 of this nation's most experienced and trusted pilots - many of them Vietnam War and Gulf War I veterans - if the Federal Aviation Administration continues to drag its feet on ending its discriminatory 'Age 60 Rule,'" it said.This sky-is-falling pronouncement was to announce a lawsuit filed by the brand-new Senior Pilots Coalition, formed just this past February, looking to throw out the Age 60 Rule.

It really tugs at the heartstrings, doesn't it?

"Most experienced and trusted" is a transparent hint that you won't be safe if these pilots are forced to retire at 60, as all others have since 1959.

And how is the fact that some of them are war veterans relevant, unless you're trying to lay on a guilt trip that if you don't support these pilots, it's as bad as not supporting the troops?

Why do you suppose we suddenly have a "fast-growing" Senior Pilots Coalition and a lawsuit challenging their mandatory retirement age?

Could it be because boomers are now turning 60 at the rate of one every eight seconds?

Why weren't the boomers pushing to end such "blatant discrimination" when we were in our 30s and 40s?

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