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Igel

(35,293 posts)

9. You don't.

Reply to olddad56 (Reply #7)

Tue Jan 1, 2013, 11:18 PM

Jan 2013

The "Greatest Generation" grew up between the wars and fought in WWII, those who stayed at home provided the economic and material output necessary to sustain the combat.

The Depression started in 1929 in the US, so they "grew up" in 1947. They didn't fight the war. They were teens during the war. They grew up during and after the war.

That cohort's wedged between "The Greatest" and the boomers.

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