From the greatest generation to the millenials, they all have a name except one group.

[shraby]

Those are the ones born during WWII. We feel left out as a group. We did were the ones born at the end of the great depression and went without our fathers until the war ended. Then after the war, lived through our families trying to start their lives anew. We saw the rise of the nuclear age.
Yet we are the forgotten generation!

[DBoon]

1. aren't you the Beat Generation?

NT

[shraby]

2. Never heard that applied to us. I'll have to google and see.

[shraby]

5. I checked and the big names in that were already adults by the time the ones came

along that were born during the war. i.e. 1941, 42, 43 and 44.

We are not the beat generation, but as we grew up, we became part of the movers and shakers of the Civil rights movement, the Vietnam war protest and the hippie movement.

[DBoon]

9. The cultural and political icons of the Boomers were born before 1945

So I think it is legitimate to be the Beat Generation even though its founders were older

[SharonAnn]

3. I consider us to be the leading edge, "point" for the Babay Boomers.

Granted, I was born in August of 1945, but I consider myself that.

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Silent generation

I think it's early/mid 1930's to start of the Boomers.

My dad was a Silent all the way.

[ThoughtCriminal]

7. I've heard that label

Mid-20's to mid-40's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Generation

[TexasBushwhacker]

12. Yes. My parents and aunts and uncles were all "silents"

They grew up during the Great Depression and WWII. The men often served in the military during the Korean War. Like veterans of WWII, the benefited from the GI Bill (if they were white).

[DavidDvorkin]

6. We are The Important Generation

Well, I think so, anyway.

[Kaleva]

8. The 'Get Off My Lawn' generation.

[Solly Mack]

10. Traditionalists/Silent Generation - what those born 1945 and before (to the 1920's) are called.

I'm a Baby Boomer. My husband is Generation X.

[Donkees]

11. ''War Babies: The Generation That Changed America''

War Babies: The Generation That Changed America examines the lives and careers of Americans born between 1939 and 1945. No one has written such a book about this generation. War Babies deals especially with musicians and composers like Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Simon and Garfunkel; with film directors like Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese; with actors like Al Pacino and Robert De Niro; with athlete/activists like Muhammad Ali; with journalists like Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein; and with politicians like John Kerry and Nancy Pelosi. These are the people who continue to shape our lives and cultures in the 21st century.

https://www.amazon.com/War-Babies-Generation-Changed-America/dp/0990669807

[Leith]

13. Yes, War Babies

I've known that term for decades.

There was an improv group called War Babies because most of its members were, naturally, born in the early 1940s. There are one or two of their bits on YouTube you can find if you put "war babies improv" in the search engine.