The Depression was so traumatic to that generation...followed by WW2, The Atomic Age, Korea, Vietnam, Iron Curtain, etc.
Not to mention that my family were Boston Irish and worked for the kennedys.
Eek.
Worked for the Kennedys? Wow. Doing what exactly?
My people were all NJ Irish. Hudson County , NJ.
Tradespeople mostly. Bricklayers, stone masons, my dad’s people that is. They were from Belfast.
My mothers people were from Waterford. They were the ‘’Lace Curtain’’ Irish. They had education and did well. My late mother was an RN.