1. Weâre poorer than our parents were at our age. Few people have been through as many economic ups and downs as the members of Generation X. Born between 1965 and 1980, any entered the workforce during the boom years of the Clinton administrationâbut then along came 9/11 and, a few years later, the Great Recession.
The shooter, Charles Whitman, was a student at the University of Texas. A former Marine who grew up with an abusive father, he admitted to killing his mother and his wife in a suicide note. The next day, Whitman began shooting people from the top of the Texas Tower with a sniper rifle.
Whitman's work was largely ignored by the general public in America until the 1870s, when favourable reviews of his poetry appeared in England. Whitman died at his home in Mickle Street, Camden, New Jersey, in 1892. Although Whitman never visited Britain he developed close ties with Bolton.