By Victor Normand
Before Tom Brokaw wrote about the “Greatest Generation,” that generation was also known as the “Silent Generation,” a description popularized by Time magazine for those born after 1925 who lived through the Great Depression and came of age during World War II. They were preceded by the “Veterans” who were born after 1900 and followed by the most famous generation of them all- the “Baby Boomers.” After coming up with that title, we got lazy as a society and began naming generations with just letters, X and Y, though the Y’s are now becoming known as “Millennials.”
There are specific benchmarks for the start and end of some of these generations, like world wars or sudden spikes in births. Although exact dates sometimes float around, they still.......Read More>>