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....
Must have been bad parenting.
I can buy into the Greatest Generation from the perspective that when their country called, they went. 400,000 died, hundreds of thousands, even millions were injured yet, when they came back, they went to work. Man did they work. They took a large, rural country into a superpower. Built cities, infrastructure, businesses, homes upon homes, colleges and families.
Were they the best of the best? probably not, but when the job needed to be done, it was done.
They pulled together as a team to defeat the Nazis and the Japanese. Then, they pulled to gether as a nation to build the America we live in now. For that, I honor them daily.
For that, they can be called