[fatnotlazy]

I consider those who went through the Great Depression and served during World War II to be members of the Greatest Generation. The ones you mentioned might have been born during the war, but they didn't serve.

And I can't imagine Jim Hendrix, et al. exhibiting the same courage, perseverance and all around toughness of the Greatest Generation. McCain survived a POW camp, but the others are/were wussies.

[ansel12]

Hendrix was a paratrooper, but none of that changes what generation they were in, the Silent generation actually has a great record of military service, as does the boomer generation.