He didn't know the half of it.
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?
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.
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
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.
I was thinking the other day about recent US Presidents who were veterans. Harry Truman was a WW-I vet, but Eisenhower, JFK, Nixon (USN), LBJ (USN) and Bush 41 were all WW-II veterans. Jimmy Carter served in the Navy and Bush 43 was in the National Guard and was a fighter pilot. Only Clinton and Obama have had no military experience whatsoever.
No disrespect, but WW II vets should have made their exit from politics a long time ago.
Haven’t we learned our lesson from allowing guys like Robert Byrd to hang around and hold seats of power when they are in a semi-vegetative state?
He didn't know the half of it.