Lonnie, like you I think it is, I'd go back in if I was 17 again, like a shot.
I remember my grandad who fought in WW1 and WW2 ask the same question during the 'swinging 60's' when the beatles et al at their height and the protests at the Vietnam, miners union strikes and so on. He'd turn in his grave if he read the link you posted though
I suppose us 'old + bold' will always find something to whinge about.
You remember the saying? "Old soldiers don't die, they re-org in hell"