I was born in '72 and feel the same way. I identify a lot more with my grandfather than with either of my parents (or any other boomer relatives). Seems that the WW2 generation had its priorities in order, but sadly their success enabled the next generation to have all the wrong priorities and suffer few consequences.
Ditto.....Thank God for the WW2 generation that was around long enough to tell us Gen-X'ers how things should be and not to make the same mistakes our parents made.
I wish I knew my grandparents better. They were not quite in the WW2 winning generation, were every so slightly older (in their 30s during the 1930s). But for example my paternal grandma was a civil defense warden and helped out with air raid drills and the like. She was also sort of a Rosie Riveter during the peak of the War and my grampa was building tanks. They did not live past their 70s and I simply was too young to know them in any meaningful way. I miss them dearly.
i hear you brother, my mother just bought a house on one of those interest only variable loan. my grandfather paid for his first home in cash. and his second, and his third and last.
did all that brown acid fry their brains, they sure can't do basic math.
parents just don't understand.
The WWII generation developed an economic powerhouse in a world where there was no other competition. That produced a false euphoria where unions demanded enormous benefits and employers allowed the excesses as the pot of gold seemed to be endless. The socialist New Deal was cooked up with a ratio of 23 to 1 workers to beneficiaries. That ratio is three to one today. Today's world has cut throat competition as the rest of the world caught up with ability to manufacture. The 'golden years' of operating without competition are over. The boomers were children in the heyday of this economic boom. They didn't cause the problems that drive all the whining in this thread. The socialist policies were cooked up from the New Deal Democrats and accelerated by the Great Society Democratic welfare state invented by LBJ.
'71 here. I think JamesP81 is on to something.