Yup...The Greatest Generation.Boys and girls growing up in very hard,frightening,times only to find at age 20 that they had to fight to save civilization. And then they went on to build “Western Society”...a society that only 50 years earlier nobody would have even dreamed of seeing.
My grandfather fought in WW 1. Came back to the US in 1919.
Raised cattle and ran a farm. When the depression hit, it almost broke him. He told me that even though prices were dropping, no one had any money so very little commerce happened.