Greatest Generation

An established(ie: long used) term referring to WW2 vets, however, it was self given(I think..) and is generally used in one of two ways...

1)arrogantly, often something along the lines of the first definition for this word(^)
2)by pacifists who wish to not seem that way or who wish to not be thought of as ungrateful

The generation of men and women who selflessly served in the armed forces of America during WW2 and helped stop the tide of Nazi and Japanese aggression. Alot better than today's generation of pacifist pussies and terrorist appeasers. With the exception of those in the armed forces now. God Bless them.

A generation of western guys who fought one battle when they were teenagers and endlessly bragged about it for the rest of their lives while their entire civilization fell to pieces around them.

The generation of Men and Women defined by the miserable conditions of the great depression and the hard fighting in World War 2. Some would consider the name arrogant if they had no awareness of history. They lost friends, became cripples and experienced gross traumas in the process. They aren't constantinly in our faces bragging in the day to day - they are quietly declining in retirement homes while the actually arrogant and entitled Boomers make a mockery of everything their parents bled for. So their children could have the life they never had.