"Where the heck was the so called "Greatest Generation"????"
Busy creating, birthing, and raising the Boomers. :) I raised that question several years ago with my Greatest Gen father (now 86), and asked him why our generation had been so insulated, given so much, and especially not forced to encounter many of life's rough edges.... he said, "We didn't want you to". It was a deliberate decision on his generation's part.
I think it's understandable; even before they were old enough to go to war, this generation understood the privations of the depression, and I know my father and many fathers were determined that would be completely a thing of the past, something unknown to their children.
Now, if they just hadn't had so MANY of us..... :)
the greatest generations parents were rough on their kids to make them strong.
but I guess they never turned it around and did the right thing in raising their kids. It was easier to let them run wild.