3 Silent Generation
<p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Generation" title="Silent Generation">Silent Generation</a>, also known as the <i>Lucky Few</i>, were born from approximately 1925 until 1941.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation#cite_note-25">[25]</a></sup> It includes some who fought in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, most of those who fought the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a> and many during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>.</p>
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<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_%28magazine%29" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i> magazine coined the term "Silent Generation" in a November 5, 1951 article entitled "The Younger Generation," and the term has remained ever since.<sup id="cite_ref-time.com_1-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Generation#cite_note-time.com-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-forbes_2-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Generation#cite_note-forbes-2">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Generation#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> The name was originally applied to people in the United States and Canada but has been applied as well to those in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Europe" title="Western Europe">Western Europe</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America" title="South America">South America</a>. It includes most of those who fought during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a>. In the United States, the generation was comparatively small because the financial insecurity of the 1930s and the war in the early 1940s caused people to have fewer children.<sup id="cite_ref-forbes_2-1" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Generation#cite_note-forbes-2">[2]</a></sup>
They have also been named the "Lucky Few" in the 2008 book <i>The Lucky Few: Between the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boom</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Generation#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-springer_5-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Generation#cite_note-springer-5">[5]</a></sup> by Elwood D. Carlson PhD, the Charles B. Nam Professor in Sociology of Population at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_State_University" title="Florida State University">Florida State University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Generation#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup>
<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes" title="Forbes">Forbes</a></i> describes the Silent Generation as those born 1925–1942.<sup id="cite_ref-forbes_2-2" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Generation#cite_note-forbes-2">[2]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pew_Research_Center" title="Pew Research Center">Pew Research Center</a> defines the generation as being born from 1928 to 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Generation#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup></p>