A glance at the February 3 issue of Salon: The baby boomers vs. the greatest generationThe legacy of the baby-boom generation may not be as great as some boomers like to believe it is, says Gary ...

The phrase "Greatest Generation" goes back at least to 1953, when the recently retired U.S. Army General James Van Fleet, who had served in both world wars and led the Eighth Army in Korea, ...

The Greatest Generation describes the cohort of Americans born between the decades of the 1900s and the 1920s that lived through the Great Depression and WWII.

With his book “The Greatest Generation,” TV journalist Tom Brokaw bestowed a lasting coronation upon Americans born between the early 1900s and the mid-1920s.

From my own parents and from the wisest of the Greatest Generation, I hear pleas to all of us not to forget the nation or the people that they fought so many years ago to save. They still need savi… ...