Posted on 06/06/2013 4:46:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
Perhaps gone - but not forgotten.
Good, they left this country in the hands of the baby boomers. Why did they even bother fighting if it was all going to end like this?
Fought hard, governed poorly.
The WWII vet simply dominated my world as a natural thing from my earliest memories to...and suddenly they’re gone.
The WW II vet is a big part of my earliest memories: My Grandfather...the VFW...his buddies...etc. they were great, hard working men. Yet...their politics. They left us with the modern democratic party run by their spoiled brat children who are bound and determined to ruin the country they fought for.
They made great warriors...but really crappy parents (by and large). I'm not sure if it was their exposure to hard times and trauma or what...but most of these guys did not govern like the warriors they were (even McCain)...and their kids are worse.
I often wish my father had told me more about his service during WW2 brfore he passed. I had to dig most of the info out of public records. All I got from him was that he was the XO of a destroyer named USS Heermann in the South Pacific. I had to go to public records to find out that USS Heermann participated in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
To have served on the USS Johnston, USS Heerman or the USS Samuel B. Roberts at the Battle of Leyte Gulf was to have faced certain death and lived to tell about it.
In many respects, it was the greatest battle in the history of naval warfare.
Keep in mind too, if the oldest of the Greatest Generation and their parents could have been bothered to hold Germany to the terms of the Versailles Treaty, WWII would never have happened.
I grew up surrounded by WWII vets. Remember all the St. Christopher medals? Remember the anchors tattooed on your uncle’s upper arm? Remember the smoking of Lucky Strikes and Camels? And tales of chocolate bars being handed out to civilians? It was a wonderful world, the post war world...
Err...McCain is not a WWII vet. Strange post to say the least.
“Perhaps gone - but not forgotten.”
In the case of Lautenliberal, forgetting that piece of excrement is essential for a good mental life.
He was slime, and now he becomes slime.
Sorry, but being a lib totally negates anything done for our military.
In fact, I consider a lib to be very close to a mortal enemy of our military.
And a great many of our military agrees.
“Keep in mind too, if the oldest of the Greatest Generation and their parents could have been bothered to hold Germany to the terms of the Versailles Treaty, WWII would never have happened.”
Good point. Up through Vietnam, I made a point of noting that all 4 wars of the 20th Century that Americans got dragged into were started with Dems in office, and usually cleaned up by Republicans (except WW2).
I suspect that largely it had more to do with depression era childhoods than wartime experience. They simply wanted their kids to have things better than they did, and in many cases, went way overboard.
Many of our public school teachers were WW2 vets in the 1950s-1980s. Public schools all over America, even the largest cities were very good back then. They had discipline and orderliness. You feminize these schools and they turn into violent snake pits...the ones in the big cities do
If we could only attach electrical generators to all the graves of WWII vets. I’m sure they are spinning in their graves when they see what nobama, his minions, LIB pinheads and DIMocRATs are doing to this wonderful country.
My Dad joined the Army Air Corps in May of 45. Up until two years ago we thought he was in the MATS. we were at a Memorial Day Mass and friend of ours asked him about his service. we found out he had flown two missions in a B-24 and had seen the atomic bomb loaded.
The “Greatest Generation” established and expanded the Welfare State that is now collapsing. They were some of its biggest beneficiaries. They took a country that had little to no debt and created a system that mortgaged our future so that the current generation could get more in transfer payments. Now the Boomers and Generation X had their part in it too — especially the Boomers — but this system of mass transfer payments was set up by the “Greatest Generation.” They may have done good, but they also set this nation up for collapse with ever expanding transfer payments and social welfare payments that we now can’t get rid of and can’t afford.
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