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Maybe every other generation should be called the Forgotten Generation. I suppose we should be grateful we didn't have a Forgotten War to go along with it.
by bradleyjg 11y ago
Maybe every other generation should be called the Forgotten Generation. I suppose we should be grateful we didn't have a Forgotten War to go along with it.
- jessaustin 11y agoUmmm.... ISTM we've had at least three wars (Gulf I, II, Afghanistan, with fair arguments to include other conflicts as well), and at least one comment seems to have forgotten...
- bradleyjg 11y agoUsing the '62-'80 (inclusive) definition the very youngest Gen X'ers was 20 on 9/11, and the oldest was 39. The bulk of the people that ended up fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq were millennials. Admittedly you get a somewhat different result if you use the 1985 endpoint. The first gulf war was definitely our war, but it wasn't much of one. Total US causalities of less than 1,200 (KIA + WIA). The Korean War had more than 125,000, WWII more than 1M, Vietnam 210k, Afghanistan + Iraq more than 55k. I don't think the Gulf War shaped our generation in the same way that those other wars shaped their generations. YMMV.
- jessaustin 11y agoSince my brother has always considered himself Gen-X I never realized that the cutoff could be considered that early. I would expect a generation to be twenty years long at least. Keep in mind that many officers and noncoms (and enlisted, for that matter) are older than 20yo.
- theandrewbailey 11y agoPersian Gulf War says hi.