The Greatest Generation didn't even "survive the Depression" in that sense - they were kids during the Depression and while they suffered it was their parents making the hard choices The Depression generation is called the Lost Generation and they're mostly dead nowhttps://twitter.com/SaintSatellite/status/1237011485550882816 …
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It's kind of obscene for someone who's actually in the Boomer cohort or even the ones before it to appropriate the Great Depression like it's their story The actual survivors of the era of WWI and the Depression *never* recovered, that's why they were Lost
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It depends on your position in society of course and the boundaries are fuzzy (Gertrude Stein coined the term specifically to mean vets of WWI, who in America were a relatively small subset of the population)
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But to me the term means the people who got no GI Bill, didn't directly participate in the glorious victory of V-E and V-J Day, and when they were told about the brand new America they were building in the dawn of the Space Age were too old and scarred to believe in it
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George Bailey as opposed to Harry Bailey, is a pretty good pop culture reference Standing on the bridge thinking about how every chance he had to do something good with his life got pissed away just so younger happier people could inherit a better world
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