It's the same for us except it was the Cold War. I've never known a world without nuclear weapons being standard.
So true - but true of my parents too, my grandparents were the generation that predated that era in my family.
I definitely remember having conversations especially with my grans where they gently laughed me out of my teen arrogance in somehow stupidly thinking previous generations didn't understand or care about social issues, didn't have passions or make mistakes...
...both grans were pregnant when they married as were 3 of my great grans!
Over the years I learned that all my parents and grandparents had been active union members even being shop stewards some of them, all 4 grandparents served in wwii (as an early teen i thought only men had served), that they'd been on protest marches, started petitions and been active in picketing certain companies and shops for their treatment of women and ethnic minorities, given speeches and raised money for charities they strongly believed in, one relative was a conscientious objector, while another of the same generation we believe was a spy, they vanished without trace just before the end of that war and had always been very vague about their war role but had uniform and were stationed in places we now know to have been near or included intelligence units.
All too often youngsters forget or don't consider that they AREN'T the first to fall in love, have sex, feel injustices, have opinions and passions and beliefs that aren't necessarily in tune with the majority of society.
I'm not sure why this is, the arrogance of youth?
I remember watching a tv drama donkeys years ago with a scene which played this out - young teen grandchild "educating" their grandparent as to racism being a "bad thing" and the grandparent basically rolling eyes and giving it "what do you think we fought the war for? Why do you think we protested against Mosley and people like him? Just cos we're older doesn't mean we're stupid"