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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFrom the greatest generation to the millenials, they all have a name except one group.
Those are the ones born during WWII. We feel left out as a group. We did were the ones born at the end of the great depression and went without our fathers until the war ended. Then after the war, lived through our families trying to start their lives anew. We saw the rise of the nuclear age.
Yet we are the forgotten generation!
DBoon
(22,366 posts)NT
shraby
(21,946 posts)shraby
(21,946 posts)along that were born during the war. i.e. 1941, 42, 43 and 44.
We are not the beat generation, but as we grew up, we became part of the movers and shakers of the Civil rights movement, the Vietnam war protest and the hippie movement.
DBoon
(22,366 posts)So I think it is legitimate to be the Beat Generation even though its founders were older
SharonAnn
(13,776 posts)Granted, I was born in August of 1945, but I consider myself that.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)I think it's early/mid 1930's to start of the Boomers.
My dad was a Silent all the way.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)Mid-20's to mid-40's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Generation
TexasBushwhacker
(20,196 posts)They grew up during the Great Depression and WWII. The men often served in the military during the Korean War. Like veterans of WWII, the benefited from the GI Bill (if they were white).
DavidDvorkin
(19,479 posts)Well, I think so, anyway.
Kaleva
(36,307 posts)Solly Mack
(90,770 posts)I'm a Baby Boomer. My husband is Generation X.
Donkees
(31,415 posts)https://www.amazon.com/War-Babies-Generation-Changed-America/dp/0990669807
Leith
(7,809 posts)I've known that term for decades.
There was an improv group called War Babies because most of its members were, naturally, born in the early 1940s. There are one or two of their bits on YouTube you can find if you put "war babies improv" in the search engine.