ARE YOU IN THIS AGE GROUP?

I know that at least half of you don’t belong in the age group below . However it will maybe explain why we oldies are the way we are. 

 Born 1930 to 1946 facts

Special Group / Born Between 1930 - 1946. Today, they range in ages
from 75 to 90.  Are you or do you know someone “still here”?

You are the smallest group of children, born since the early 1900s.

You are the last generation, climbing out of the depression, who
can remember the winds of war and the impact of a world at war which
rattled the structure of our daily lives for years.

You are the last to remember ration books for everything from gas
to sugar to shoes to stoves.

You saved tin foil and poured fat into tin cans.

You saw cars up on blocks because tires weren't available.

You can remember milk being delivered to your house early in the
morning and placed in the "milk box" on the porch.

You are the last to see the gold stars in the front windows of
grieving neighbours whose sons died in the War.

You saw the 'boys' home from the war, build their little houses.

You are the last generation who spent childhood without television;
instead, you imagined what you heard on the radio.
With no TV until the 50's, you spent your childhood "playing outside".

There was no little league.  There was no city playground for kids.

The lack of television in your early years meant, that you had
little real understanding of what the world was like.

On Saturday afternoons, the movies gave you newsreels sandwiched
in between westerns and cartoons. 

Telephones were one to a house, often shared (party lines) and
hung on the wall in the kitchen (no cares about privacy).

Computers were called calculators; they were hand cranked.

Typewriters were driven by pounding fingers, throwing the carriage
and changing the ribbon.

Newspapers and magazines were written for adults and the news was
broadcast on your radio in the evening.  As you grew up, the country
was exploding with growth.
The Government gave returning Veterans the means to get an
education and spurred colleges to grow.  Loans fanned a housing boom.
Pent up demand coupled with new instalment payment plans opened many factories for work.

 New highways would bring jobs and mobility.  The Veterans joined
civic clubs and became active in politics.

The radio network expanded from 3 stations to thousands.

Your parents were suddenly free from the confines of the
depression and the war, and they threw themselves into exploring
opportunities they had never imagined. 

You weren't neglected, but you weren't today's all-consuming
family focus.  They were glad you played by yourselves until the
street lights came on. They were busy discovering the post war world.

You entered a world of overflowing plenty and opportunity; a world
where you were welcomed, enjoyed yourselves and felt secure in your
future though depression poverty was deeply remembered.

Polio was still a crippler.

You came of age in the 1950s and 1960s.  You are the last generation to
experience an interlude when there were no threats to our homeland.
The second world war was over and the cold war, terrorism, global
warming, and perpetual economic insecurity had yet to haunt life with
unease.

Only your generation can remember both a time of great war, and a
time when our world was secure and full of bright promise and plenty.
You grew up at the best possible time, a time when the world was
getting better...

You are "The Last Ones."  More than 99 % of you are either retired or
deceased, and you feel privileged to have "lived in the best of
times!"