Too great a taste for irony marks the absence of sincerity and dedication. But read the details of what our people are doing in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere today -- fully the equivalent of WW II even if not on as large a scale.
Exactly right. I find that description of any American generation to be completely distasteful. Heck, if you want to go there, then the Patriots who fought in the Revolutionary war were the greatest generation. They fail and America doesn't exist. Stupid Peter Jennings...