[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.

“http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2008/luckyfew.aspx";

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[fieldmarshaldj]

My parents are of that generation. Still, the “silent” sobriquet is ludicrous given that many were the ringleaders of all that unpleasantness in the ‘60s.