[mom4melody]

I work for the V.A....and every one of those old gentlemen I have the priviledge to meet I thank, and let them know, one more time, that they saved the the world, and then built a nation.

I wish we had their strength and honor again, to fight the enemy within, but alas, they have earned their rest.

It’s too bad they raised a generation of hippies and socialists (I know, not all the boomers are jerks).

[GnuHere]

Support your local or regional Honor Flights - taking the WWII vets to see their memorial in D.C. at no cost to them.

[ngat]

They have an excuse. They were raised BY a generation of progressives.

[Tublecane]

“It’s too bad they raised a generation of hippies and socialists”

Although they weren’t “hippies,” though they were things they had other words for, “swinger,” or something. I haven’t done the proper research, but, believe me, they existed. There definitely were a lot of socialists. Not so much amongst the general population, then again general boomers weren’t hippies and socialists either. In both cases, it was much more prevalent amongst the cultural and popular cultural elites. It’s just that in the 60s the more outwardly leftist vulgarity was considerably more successful.

[muir_redwoods]

Remember this, the so-called greatest generation, included amongst their oldest cohort, the folks who allowed the nazis to violate the terms of the treaty of Versailles and build up the military infrastructure that resulted in the greatest physical threat humans have ever had to deal with, the introduction of nuclear war and the enslavement of half of the world for decades under the East Bloc.

Thanks, I guess