The Best Generation of last 100 years?

[senor]

I have always noticed that each generation had a war except for My Generation (which is called Generation X, a term that makes me ill, let's call it GX.

GI generation went to WWII. If you were a male born between about 1910 and 1925 and healthy, more than likely you were in a uniform eligible for battle service. They are more than likely the greatest generation because WWII was a war that had to be fought, there was little other choice, and these men and women won the war!

Silent Generation people were kids during the Depression and WWII, but the draft was still in effect, and many were drafted into service into the Korean War. Even during peacetime, Compulsory Military Service was the law until 1973, and people from all walks of life served during this time.

I will say that many silent generation people more or less lived in the peacetime of the 1950s, except for career officers who went on to fight in Vietnam.

Baby Boomers of course had the Vietnam War as a cloud. I couldn't imagine living at that time and the fear of possibly being forced by my government to fight a strange group of people halfway around the Earth.

GX My generation did not have any major wars or sustained conflicts. This isn't to say that service people from my generation were not killed 231 Marines were killed in Lebanon. Some military personal were killed in the invasion of Grenada in 1983. Then you have the younger GXers who were in Desert Storm, with causualties. However, during this time, there was no outstanding conflicts or major enemies that required the services of anyone who did not want to join the military service.


Generation Y These kids needs to worry. The military services are in dire need of people for the war in Iraq and possible war in Iran and other military operations. The 21st Century has totally gotten off on the wrong foot, with a faltering economy, changing demographics, and the drumbeat of war...........same old story.

Senor