Jack Burns was not one of those silent majority baby boomers. He was one of those who helped to make them the hippest generation, if not the greatest. He went to the Fillmore, marched in anti-war protest, and watched Yellow Submarine on acid. Jack had no interest in his own pedigree when he read of Lee Melon's search for his Confederate General ancestor of Big Sur, he saw only the symbolism of a war against the status quo, a war he was a veteran of. Like Melon, 21st century Jack values the past and has pride in his Southern heritage, but it is just one more anchor around the neck of an aging...