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
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