Major Characteristics
- Assertive and energetic do’ers.
- Marriage was for life; divorce and having children out of wedlock were not acknowledged.
- Excellent team players.
- Community-minded.
- Strongly interested in personal morality and near-absolute standards of right and wrong.
- Strong sense of personal civic duty, which means they vote.
- Strong loyalty to jobs, groups, schools, etc.
- There was no “retirement” you worked until you’re died or couldn’t work anymore.
- Age of radio and air flight; they were the generation that remembers life without airplanes, radio, and TV.
- Most of them grew up without modern conveniences like refrigerators, electricity and air conditioning.
- Sometimes called The Greatest Generation.
