Did you know that I am a member of the Silent Generation? Perhaps not, because we never talk about it.

The Silent Generation includes people born between 1925 and 1945. We were preceded by the Greatest Generation (you can’t top that) and followed by the Baby Boomers.

I am not the only member of the Silent Generation (you may think that because we members never talk about it for fear of having our tongues cut out). Joe Biden is just as Silent as I am. (As is probably clear, we were born just one week apart.)

Joe Biden is (shh, don’t tell anyone) the only Silent president. Our most recent presidents have otherwise all been BOOMERS! Can you imagine Donald Trumpet being a BOOMER? Or Bill Clinton, or George W. Bush, or Barack Obama? All BOOMERS. (In fact, Trumpet, Clinton and Bush are Barely BOOMERS – all were born in 1946, the first year of the BOOMER generation. Born in June, July and August, they were among the original BOOMERS. They were extremely young when they were born; perhaps this is why they have earned the title Baby BOOMERS.

I looked up the Silent Generation on Wikipedia to see what we were like. Here we go. Does this sound like me?

1. We want to work within the system, not change it. (Sounds like me)
2. We are not risk takers. We want to play it safe. (Sounds like me)
3. We are thrifty and sometimes miserly (Sounds like me only on those days when the stock market falls)
4. We tend to have hoarding behavior (who? me?)
5. We married young (not me, but I came close)
6. We had our children young (my children were both babies when born, so I guess so)
7. We had a lot of divorces (not me)
8. We have generally been optimistic and not part of the counter culture (that’s me)

What about those who were born after the BOOMERS? Generation X. Millennials. Generation Z. Gen (not Generation, just Gen) Alpha. What can we say about them? We can say that they have bad titles. And that says it all.

The world today is under the control of BOOMERS and Xers. Look at the mess that it’s in. Don’t blame us Silent types. We just look and shake our heads. And keep our criticisms to ourselves.