Marc B. Wrote:Dude... the baby boomer generation came from young men and women getting it on after World War II. World War II ended in 1945. You were born in 1953 (conceived 1952). It is a fair bet that not every man and woman married and had children immediately after 1945. We're talking 7 years. Not 10. Not 20. A generation is generally considered 20 years.
I know it pains you to accept the fact, but your parents were going at it like monkeys in heat within that ACCEPTED 20 years considered the Baby Boomers Generation. Therefore, you are a baby boomer. Accept it.
Marc, I don't think NY Joe was claiming
NOT to be of the Post War Baby Boom (PWBB) generation. Seems to me that he was merely questioning that those who were born into that generation would have been born over a period of twenty years. And it makes a certain kind of sense to me.
Within a fairly short period of time, many returning veterans settled down and started to raise families. (My own father didn't get out of the hospital until 1946.) This generation, so-called, was, to a very large extent, children born to those returning servicemen.
Does anyone seriously think that those families were still having children eighteen-ninteen-twenty years later?
I think
that is what Joe was actually questioning.
Ken V.