The Greatest Generation?

There is a well-known book written with this title. I might raise some issue with that assumption, however. No doubt it was a great generation of people, who stood firm during the most costly war in human history. However, they proved to be less-than-stellar parents, generally speaking. The moral decay we see so rampant today had it roots in the laxness that set in immediately after World War II with the beatnik and hippie generation.

Perhaps the greatest generation really were the parents of the World War II adults - the ones who endured the Great Depressions and who raised the men who fought in World War II and the women who kept the home fires burning.