The wee cohort born in a scant few years between the GREATEST and the BOOMERS is called WAR BABIES! The "SILENT" thing doesn't make any sense.
I always thought it was because we were raised with the admonition, "Shut up! Adults are talking"... and there was no arguing or back-talk when we heard that. We lived in awe of what our parents and others older than us had indured and did what we were told...when we were told... and pretty much kept our opinions to ourselves. We did not argue with teachers. If you were sent home by a neighbor or (horror) the police, you went. Corporal punishment was the norm, not a rarity and for the most part, it worked.
Yep...... War Babies I would say 1935-1945 half a generation or so
I made a mistake before. Trump is 72, 1946 so he is in fact a boomer.
After the war there was a boom in babies