Thread: Gadget ownership broken down by generation
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Old 02-05-2011, 09:03 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
G.I Gen is the people that grew up during the Depression and fought in WWII and at the time soldiers were referred to collectively as G.I. Joes. (Which the toy and later the TV series adopted.)
G.I. = Government Issued.

The Silent Generation refers to the folks that grew up in the war years, the chohort between the "Greatest Generation" and the Baby Boomers because they were neither great heroes (collectively-speaking) like their older siblings or troublemakers like their nephews or children.
Actually, the G.I. Gen as identified by this study (75+) encompasses both the generation that grew up in the 1930s and fought in WWII (mid 80s and older) *and* the generation that grew up during the 1940s who were too young to have fought in WWII but might have fought in the Korean War (those aged 75 to early 80s). The Silent Gen per this study is the generation that came of age during the 1950s. Mostly too young to have been affected by the war years of WWII, but older than the boomers who came of age during the unrest of the late 1960s/early 1970s.
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