I'll be 60 years old soon, how would you rate my generation. Was it the greatest?

Answer 1

Well you had Elvis and the Beatles so i guess it was OK.

Answer 2

Happy birthday, dinkylin! My grandmother is 64, and I think she is the greatest! Your generation, by far, were a hard working ppl, adhering to family values, and work ethics defunct today. Besides the incredible racial tensions during your era, from other baby boomers, I heard it was good living, hard work, but good. You all witnessed so much! The assasinations, Bay of Pigs, crazy Nixon....You all had great music, that thing called neighborhoods and mom & pop stores, Sundays recognized as family time, and vacation was taken! Now, you're the richest generation! It is scary to think 30 years from now when I am knocking on 60, what condition my generation and under will be like. Lack of family values, work moral and ethics, government getting richer by the minute, middle class diminishing....yea, we really did it! Many blessings to you, dinkylin!

Answer 3

Happy Birthday!

But really, there is no way of knowing if your generation was the greatest without having to have gone back in time and checked out the other ones.

Answer 4

It was a great time. Most of Your generation has remained open minded, willing to take risks, non judgmental, creative, willing to pay the price for what they want. This generation increased freedom and equal rights for persons of color and women. Thanks to you, women do not have to risk death to end a pregnancy, they do not have to stay in abusive relationships. People have learned that it's OK and even desirable to step outside the box. Corporate America rewards persons who think outside the box. A lot of good stuff there.
I don't know about the greatest because each era has made contributions to what we have as a society today; both good and bad.

Answer 5

I don't think any generation was the greatest. I'm 64, born just before the boomers. Each generation has to cope with history and defining results.

My parents had to handle the depression and WW II. I had to handle Vietnam and Bush. My kids have to handle declining prospects. History will judge all of us.

Answer 6

I do not remember the name of the group before the baby boom, but to me this was the greatest generation in my lifetime. Following them, came the WW II generation which delivered peace not only to the West, but to the world. Your generation, the boomer's, waited so long to finally begin to live a life that reflects love. The following generations like the X and Y were carnal, because these generations enforced law that they really didn't believe in their hearts. Baby boomers need to trust and love God again with more than just their mouths, all hell fell on this nation when they took over.

Answer 7

Every generation prior is better than what follows.
It just seems that society shifts have influenced generations into becoming less & less when it comes to character.

I'm partial to my parent's WW2 generation as being "greatest", but I also hold dear any American Veteran of any of the wars we were engaged in - whether by choice or by draft.

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Answer 8

Your parents were the greatest generation. But the boomers arent all that bad.

Answer 9

You are the luckiest person on earth, you grew up with the bands that didn't exist or broke up before I was BORN! Unless you were against all that, but still! You had everything, free love, pation, music, then The Man shut you down.

Answer 10

I'm not sure any generation is that much different from any other. It's more a matter of reacting to what is going on at the time. Definitely the effort in WW2 was courageous and your generation sacrificed immensely.

Answer 11

Not by a long shot!!!! We baby boomers are a lazy bunch of slobs. We whine constantly, fail to take responsibility of our actions, and expect to be taken care of by the government.....sill believing that Camelot baloney that government will solve our problems. We are so blind we can't see government is our problem.

We are personally responsible for the STD explosion, drug use explosion, family denigration, awful children education (but great text messengers), materialism that endangers our very existence, and moral decay.