Coming of Age in the 1950s They called us the "Silent Generation." Our men followed the Greatest Generation into another bloody war after only five years of peace; the Korean War. Remember it? Nearly as many of us died there as in Vietnam, the Baby Boomers' war. Our women bridged a culture our mothers had discovered-going to college, but returning home to hang a framed diploma in the family kitchen. We began life expecting to live the same lives until the world changed around us, and many of us chose to change with it. Virgin Hall is a book about four women coming of age in the 1950s. The...