The younger Silent Generation was the luckiest

[Thunderbird is the word]

Particularly people born between 1935 and 1941 or 42 if you think about it kind of got the best deal generationally of every currently living cohort (speaking strictly of Americans of course.) They were too young to really experience the Great Depression, too young for WWII or Korea but too old to worry about being drafted and sent to Vietnam while at the same time either going to college for almost nothing or being able to work a decent blue collar job right out of high school. They also go to to enjoy the counter-culture of the 60s without worrying about getting sent to Vietnam and were a lot of the people participating in Key Parties in the 70s and mostly were retired by the time the sh**t hit the fan in 2008.

Granted I acknowledge that you were a hell of a lot less lucky if you were born black in Mississippi during that time.