Question???....

Greg1959

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We hear a lot about certain generations and how they impacted our society.

i.e., The greatest generation, the Boomers, the X generation, the Y generation, the Milineals (spl) , etc...


Have any of you heard of the 'Silent Generation'?

I have read some interesting articles about this generation. My Parents were of this generation.

How many of you were from this generation? Just curious...

Thanks
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I had an uncle in that generation and one that was just after Korea but before Viet Nam. Never heard it called that before.

Larry
 

My parents were of this generation. My dad was 10 in 45, he had 5 uncles who were in WW2. His dad was the oldest, too young for WW1, and too old and married for WW2.

I think my dad's generation had it pretty easy, they had the best economy to live in.
 
First time I heard it called this. But looking back my dad and mom and their brothers and sisters were quiet. Not too publicly involved.
 
I reckon that I might be one, according to the posted definition! Born in 1939. I would be willing to bet, that our elected represenitives, don't view me as silent. Thanks to computers, and E mail, I do my grumbling, as far up the ladder as practible, and have written paper letters on occasion. I haven't had IRS, at my door YET! But you never know!
 
I've never heard that term before, but it's good to know which pigeon hole I fit into. Born in August '41, a few months before Pearl Harbor. I didn't realize we were a rarity. Don't really feel special, though.
 
Let's see, that would include all the Beatles and the original members of the Rolling Stones, not to mention Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings and Johnny Paycheck. Why are they the "Silent" generation?
 
NO, you are only considering the economy
looking back. Things ALWAYS seem easier from
that point of view. Think about these points:
economic depression your entire life so far,
thousands of Americans killed daily
(thousands!!!) the entire world caught up in
wars of extermination. These were truly
desparate times. I really don't know how they
dealt with the stress compared to how wimpy
people are these days. I think they were
'silent' because they had seen so much
devastation & death, even if only thru news
releases. My mother's family went thru this.
Their older brother had been killed. their
parents were distraught, for years. The
countries their grandparents came from were
utterly destroyed and ties to family history
gone forever. The victory has been glorified
(understandable, build morale) but the cost to
those who bore the brunt of loss was bad. My
father's family had no such personal loss and
he has a much happier memory of those times.
 
They were/are silent because they were raised to trust 1. their preachers, before the rip off artist and molesters 2. their politicians, before it became common knowledge that all of em are crooks and 3. the news media, after all, there were laws that made sure they told the truth and people back then for the most parts didn't put a spin on things to sway others opinions, so they didn't expect others to do that. especially the news media. At least that's how I see it from the people I know from that era.


Rick
 
Born in 1935, too young to serve in WWII; after the WAR it was the best of times. Everything wrong today was right then. The country was rebuilding the world, no competition! Plenty of jobs, good pay, raises every year. Following generations may have better stuff but we've lost the quality of life. My grandkids don't have it near as good as I did. True the baby boomers pushed us aside.
 
Never understood why and how one could be called by one of those names. I declare if someone called me a boomer to my face they would get a sore nose.
 
Well, I guess being born in 1949 makes me part of the boomers. Kinda at the end of them. I never have heard of the silent generation. I do know a lot of people who might fit into that moniker though. Not because of their age, but because of their actions (really non actions). These people don't vote, they don't participate in much of anything. Many do work at steady jobs and take care of their own (and nothing else).

Being silent is easy and doesn't require much effort. I suspect that many baby boomers fit into this quite well. Would this be the generation that didn't have to go to war, never worried about being bombed, etc?

We as a country are the luckiest and laziest dummies in the world. The "greatest generation" saved the world for us so we could turn it into what it is today. I feel a rant coming on so I'll leave it at that!
 
HI, I was born in '42. Soon my Dad was drafted, went to the Pacific area for 3 years. Came home, I was almost 4 yrs. He missed alot, but we got close quickly..
yes I may be looking back but I think I had the best 'generation' to grow up in.. 40's,50'& early 60's. Would not choose different.
 
I hit the ground before Pearl Harbor. Many times I think about the window of my life, looking both directions. Absolutely thrilled that I arrived at the time in history that I did.

My hat certainly goes off to our founding forefathers and survivors of the Westward movement; what they accomplished with nothing to speak of in the way of support and support equipment. Striking out into unknown territory with a dream, marred by all the hazards that beset them on the way. Trying to establish roots in a unforgiving land.

I watch a lot of Gunsmoke which is commercial free and much better enjoyment than a lot of stuff for which you pay premium price. I spend a lot of time getting mentally involved in the surroundings, thinking about what it must have been like to have a little "spread"; getting there in the first place, indians, having to deal with drifting Civil War leftovers, drifters, crooks, drought, lack of adequate tillage equipment, and on and on.

Mark
 

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