I'm pretty sure the "greatest generation" cuts off well before 1946 - like 1930. It's the folks who fought in or supported the WW2 effort. The Great Depression and wartime children were much reduced in number and sometimes called the "Silent Generation." All this is totally arbitrary, of course. "Baby Boomers" like me get a bad rap as draft dodgers, etc., but many fought and died from Vietnam to Afghanistan.
I'm pretty sure the "greatest generation" cuts off well before 1946 - like 1930. It's the folks who fought in or supported the WW2 effort. The Great Depression and wartime children were much reduced in number and sometimes called the "Silent Generation." All this is totally arbitrary, of course. "Baby Boomers" like me get a bad rap as draft dodgers, etc., but many fought and died from Vietnam to Afghanistan.
ReplyDelete"...get a bad rap...."
ReplyDeleteI reserve my contempt for those who carried out the state's orders to murder Vietnamese citizens. And Afghans. And Iraqis. And ....