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The Greatest Generation consists of people who are over 96 years old. They lived through the Great Depression and fought the original Nazis, hence the name. And they are nearly all dead.
This is not for them, this is for their children who are now in their 60s and 70s, the Boomers.
Which generation accounts for all the 80 year olds in congress? They're mysteriously missing from your ranges
Anyone who is 89 or younger was 9 when wwii ended. They did not fight in wwii. You are talking about some combination of silent generation and baby boomers.
Most if the US government is baby boomers or gen x. Only a handful are over 77
Baby boomers are post WWII when all the soldiers came home so roughly 1945 on which would put the elder boomers at 78 and octogenarians in "the greatest generation."
In order: Greatest Generation, Silent Generation, Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Zoomers.
Greatest begat Boomers begat Millennials.
Silent begat Gen X begat Zoomers.
80 year olds are in the Silent Generation. There are very few members of the Silent Generation left in Congress.