Lando 
Posted on 05/30/2004 6:41:22 PM PDT by Lando Lincoln
Lando
I agree those that are the generation of WWII were great and fought for our freedom, with alot of them suffering and dying. Yet the term used, 'greatest generation', is a bit over used. All pass generations who fought for freedom are great and should all be praised.
You pay them back every two weeks. You ever notice that line on your paycheck stub that says FICA?
Whenever we visit my 82 year old dad in Corpus Christi, he takes us out to lunch at Denny's or Golden Corral or some such place and when we say, "Thanks for lunch", he says, "Don't thank me, you paid for it."
Think about it.
Television media anchors supposedly praise the "greatest generation", but they themselves are more in alignment with the "5th column" of the day, i.e. socialists, communists, marxists, dupes, useful idiots, etc. undermining the War II effort.
Not everyone lost their jobs/were starving during the Great Depression.Most people were not invested in the market,many people took cut in pay,but prices also fell.
Our CRASH was but part of a world wide depression,which had hit Europe years and years prior to '29.We then joined the rest of the world...our great crash did NOT begin anything.
And WW II was brewing BEFORE our depression!
Rather than write a whole thesis refuting her entire article,I'll just say that she needs to learn factual history.And this PC stuff about "THE GREATEST GENERATION",is sheer hyperbole.
The greatest generation produced the hippy generation. Go figure.
The best way to thank them is to fully support the current crop of the greatest generation defending our country.
"If you can read this, thank a teacher. Because you can read it in English, thank a soldier."
What happened to 2-3-and 4?
tbird1
they certainly are far and away much better than my generation....the boomers.....
my generation can be called the "worse" one in a nanosecond...
I am trying to think of the narcissism and the arrogance and the conceit of my generation, demanding a Vietnam Memorial before a WW2 memorial.....
WW2 was by far more demanding , more all encompassing, more taxing , more intrusive than anything that came along with Vietnam....
Later, not long before he died, I heard what he did. Not much - war-wise, but he had been a Dartmouth graduate, and was an owner of 3 successful stores (5&10 types) when WW2 began. He was 38 years old, married, no kids and felt so strongly about his country, that he enlisted. Not a gung-ho kid --- a setted man. He became a quartermaster and was in the Battle of the Bulge, driving a truck (without headlights) through the country at breakneck speed, He said he never killed anyone -- just animals that roamed when he was speeding supplies to the front. He came home and found that those in charge of his stores had let them rot away, so he narrowed it down to just one nice little store that provided a living --- never regretting what he had done that allowed his businesses to fade away. To him, it was country first, and by his own little contribution to the war, it was successful.
Thank you Stan!
I often think of him.
The "greatest generation" were largely the children of immigrants, or immigrants themselves. They also grew up in the Depression. They became so devoted to conformity, and were so repressed emotionally, that they brought up a generation of emotionally-starved children. Look at "Leave It to Beaver." I DON'T mean that that show is realistic, but it was accepted as "entertainment" and as an image of a desirable way to live. Talk about constipated! It's a bunch of zombies, accompanied with a laugh track. The hippies were rebelling, in a sick and destructive way, to their own emotional and spiritual starvation. Of course, they paid for it with gonorrhea and lots of other delightful consequences.
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I thank the WWII generation for their service against the evils of Germany, Japan, and Italy. Unfortunately, once they returned home they have been voting to slowly build a tyranny on our soil. The title of “greatest generation” IMO still belongs to our founding fathers and those who fought the revolutionary war. Not only did many of them sacrifice their lives, but also they more than any other generation understood the realities of human nature. It was this understanding that allowed them to build the institutions of this country to make sure that those who gave their lives did not do so in vain.
I've had discussions with some of my liberal acquaintances who say that FDR helped get the USA out with his New Deal. I could have sworn that there has been a lot of evidence that FDR's policies actually prolonged the Great Depression until WW2 came about, do you know anything about this?
The CRASH took place in October of '29 and the market was making strides in a comeback,but FDR's schemes made things so much worse,that instead of righting itself,the market went into a deep slide and really hit the skids in '33.
The ONLY thing that pulled this nation out of the Depression was WW II!
And,FWIW...some of FDR's schemes were so horrendous,that they were ruled unConstitutional and shut down.
There are MANY myths attached to the Crash and the Depression,which,unfortunately, far too many people believe are "facts".
The ONLY thing that pulled this nation out of the Depression was WW II!
*** Perhaps the one time where war was good for the economy? Not to mention rapid modernization of manufacturing to keep up with ship building,etc.
The Hippies and Yippies were FAR more a bunch of conformists,than THE MAN IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT types EVER were and in a FAR more detrimental way.
Emotionally repressed? Well, I guess one might claim that,since they didn't get naked,slop around in the mud,and have out in the open group sex.But,if you're going to take a silly T.V. show, as the exemplar of how everyone lived and behaved in the late '40s - the '50s,then I suggest that you are completely unaware of great swaths of knowledge.
Look at today's "entertainment" And tell me what THAT means. LOL
I'm NOT a Baby Boomer,but do alone me to state that not ALL Baby Boomers are horrible people.
You're stroking with a mighty broad brush and in doing so,ruining whatever argument you have.
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