[fieldmarshaldj]

Actually, those folks you named would’ve been in the (ludicrously named) “Silent Generation”, wedged in between the Greatest Generation (who fought in WW2) and the Baby Boomers.

[ansel12]

Audie Murphy was born in 1925, part of the silent generation.

[ansel12]

There is no actual “greatest generation”, that was created by the lefty Tom Brokaw, to sell his book, and for whatever other reasons that it serves the left.

WWII was not fought by a “generation”.

[Mears]

“Actually, those folks you named would’ve been in the (ludicrously named) “Silent Generation”,”

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I’m one of them—I prefer “The Lucky Few’ as an appellation. We are usually ignored.

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