They spent their lives eating the crap of the Greatest Genwration. They are very much like the current Gen X’ers. They lived the depression. They took little part in WWII, and they fought in the Forgotten War. They were overshadowed in their education by returning vets. They competed with those same vets throughout the fifties.
When they should have been leading, they were overshadowed by Aging GG’s who would not leave the stage (not complaining about Reagan, but he was the hanging on GG.)
When their time came, the boomers pushed them aside as obsolete.
My parents were from the Silent Generation. They were wonderful people, raised in rural New England. But they and their peers were so exhausted by the boomers and their competitive formative years that they never achieved what they should have. They slid into retirement and were in the woodwork—just as they had been their whole lives.
Perhaps your parents were like that; others from the WAR BABY generation weren't and still aren't.
Were this cohort (WAR BABIES) mostly pushed aside by the BOOMERS? In some ways they were, re school; however, the rest of your stupid rant is baselss and unhistoric.
Some of what you're claiming is about the tail end of the GREATEST and pre-WAR BABIES people. They're the ones who fought in Korea! They had BOOMERS and spoiled them!
I guess I am confused by what years the silent generation was...never heard of them until today. Just looked it up and said 1927-1946. That is an overlap of the Greatest and Boomers, knew many and don’t agree with the depiction. I didn’t know any that didn’t embrace change, and though they were taught to be silent and get along as children the Greatest were taught that even more so, I didn’t see them that way as adults. That age group was no more silent than the Greatest or Boomers.
I knew several that fought in Korea and they were embraced by the WWII Veterans and the people in a way those that fought in Vietnam never were. The Korean War itself was swept aside pretty fast but the Veterans I knew were not. As to going along...Boomers and what is considered the Silent were legends of fist fighting in my childhood...so not sure the Silent went along as adults so much.
I just see it different I guess, we all see what is where we live. I read what you said in the article I just read but that doesn’t describe those I knew of that age group.
My dad was Greatest Generation, my mother was your Silent...maybe that clouds my thoughts, she was not a go along to get along though for sure. They were happily married for over 50 years but on his deathbed he told us he had never won a fight with our mother. I think of others in my family that were Silent though and still don’t see it.