The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.
The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die.
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
Each generation looks to its children to keep our society moving and to make life better.
I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front.
The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop.
World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.
Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividing line - at least for the Western World - between the comfortable security of the 19th century and the instability and flux of our own time.