I am at the tail end of the baby boomers, but I always seemed to be the youngest around, as in on both sides of my family, and most of my friends. My parents lived through the Depression era and WWII, which had a huge influence on them, and in some respects, me. (As they were similarly influenced by their parents, who were either immigrants or second generation immigrants.)
I was born around the time JFK was assasinated - I know that was a crisis for many around me, especially being from the Boston area. Then came RFK and MLK, and locally, some others. When I was growing up we had the Boston Strangler and the desegregation busing riots in Boston. My older brother had a draft number and many of his friends served in Vietnam. I remember the fear and the protests. We also had the Gas crisis in the 70s (which caused our big cars to become smaller), as well as problems with the Middle East, Cuba and Russia, among others. In the 80s we had an assasination attempt on President Reagan, the Challenger disaster and all sorts of other issues and problems. Fast forward we had 9-11 and the wars in the Middle East, Al Queda, ISIS, etc. I am not sure I feel differently about things now than I did then other than that I know more now and can think things through fairly well on my own. Growing up, some of it was confusing to me.
I feel for you that you feel scared. At times I am, too. I do feel like the violence has escalated. Not just violence at protests like these, but every day violence. I said on the other thread I feel like we need someone who can bring everyone together, and we haven't found that person yet. I'm not sure who it will be. Or, I think we might be united another way, such as in the aftermath of an event. I wish people could somehow develop that perspective before we actually have an event. I feel like people just want to be "right" rather than really trying to come together. It does worry me. But overall, I think we will work things out, as we have in the past. Imagine how the colonists felt!
So hang in there.