I have a friend @60 who defines his cohort according to who watched/listened to the McCarthy hearings after school. Another tweener generation, they knew nothing of the depression, little or nothing of the Great War, too old to be Boomers.

The so called defining moments of the Boomers are well known & too numerous to mention, Kennedy assassinations, Moon walk, Beatles, VietNam, Kent State.

What are the defining events historical, cultural, or whatever by which you'd identify a W? What common experience is it that unites you?