Possible 'white power' hand signs at Army-Navy game probed

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I'm a Boomer....and proud of it!

Is there supposed to be a big difference between someone born in 1964 and 1966? Especially to someone born in the 2000s?

Yes. Baby Boomers were born to the generation of the servicemen returning from war which was a period of prosperity. The huge number of births were called the baby boom.
Generation X was after, with allegedly a different world experience growing up (America's position in the world undergoing ennui, the cold war ending, etc), just as the millennials are said to have a different experience from my Gen Xers.

I was born in 1961.

There's a pretty big difference in "experience" between someone born in 1961 and one born in 1964.

Because of the Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinations. I remember both. A person born in 1964 wouldn't.

A person born in 1964 probably doesn't remember much about the Vietnam War; whereas I have a vivid memory of it from the TV news/

You would have remembered the moon landing in 1969, you would been 8 and I was 2.

I was in summer camp, running around to Led Zeppelin, when the counselors called us in to watch the Moon Landing on an old b & w TV.

Cool! so you literally were a child of the 60s

Yep. I was.

I remember some of the Martin Luther King marches and the anti war protests

A lot of tension but exciting times as well...my father used to copy the rocker look

I actually have vague memories about the moon landing. I must have been around two or three.

I only recall seeing the moon landings a few years after, in the early 70s they kept replaying the moon landings over and over again on Australian TV

I vividly remember watching it in 1972 on my parent's giant colour TV (we were one of the first households on our street to get one) of course the film of Armstrong and Aldrin bouncing around the lunar surface was in B/W

I recall the rocket ship taking off, when my parents said we had to leave for the store. I remember being disappointed that I couldn't see the ship land on the moon.
To be so naive!

I recall the rocket ship taking off, when my parents said we had to leave for the store. I remember being disappointed that I couldn't see the ship land on the moon.
To be so naive!

The ultimate "White Supremacist" infiltration.

Someone so relatively young (barely out of nappies ) yet has such a good head on his shoulders.
I was impressed with Wolfram a long time ago.

People can take it as patronage if they wish. <shrug>
I'm too kool to care.

A probe into hand gestures flashed by West Point cadets and Naval Academy midshipmen at last weekend's televised Army-Navy college football game in Philidelphia were not racist, separate military investigations conducted by the military academies found.

The Naval Academy found that two of its midshipmen were participating in a “sophomoric game" and had no racist intent behind the hand signs. During the probe, investigators reviewed TV footage, conducted more than two dozen interviews and background checks by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the FBI.

It was determined that the freshman Annapolis midshipmen were participating in a "circle game" with their rival West Point cadets, in which someone flashes an upside-down OK sign below the waist and punches anyone who looks at it.

The circle game has been around for decades and was featured on the early 2000s sitcom “Malcolm in the Middle." It is popular among teenagers today, the West Point statement said.

Source: Army, Navy investigators find hand gestures made during football broadcast weren't racist