Time to take baby boomers off the ticket

[Turn CO Blue]

43. Your definition of generation places my parents and I into the same generation, which I find silly.

It depends on how old your parents were when you were born.

I was born in 65 - and I am in GenX.

My parents were the earliest born after WWII. Both sets of grandparents were involved in or served in the WWII effort - hence the "boom" in childbirth after that war.

My dad served in Vietnam, a different generation's war.

So to give even more nuance, my mother was the firstborn (born in 44) from WWII parents, but her sister, my aunt, was the very lastborn (born in 63).

So my aunt and I are less than two years apart - but she is a Boomer and I am a Gen-X'er. And believe me, the generational difference of our parents and ourselves shows up in everything from our perspectives to our fashion.