[JohnHuang2]

Peggy Noonan MEGA PING!!

[EternalVigilance]

As you know, my friend, I love Peggy Noonan...she's one of my heroes. Her speech writing for President Reagan was brilliant, and I love her columns.

I also share her disdain for the manufactured myth of 'Camelot', and the negative impact that has had throughout our lifetime on American political and cultural thought.

The 'Greatest Generation'; the 'Sinatra Generation'; is illustrated here very well. My Dad kinda came in on the tail end of all that, being born in '32---he was too young for WWII, but served and was wounded in Korea.

I have all of Dad's photos from that time of his life, and he was definitely a partier...the booze and the beer flowed for sure...and his subsequent life continued that Sinatra-ish lifestyle. He tended bar for many years, and spent the last 25 years of his life as the proprietor of a small town beerjoint...the Corner Bar in Plattsmouth, NE.

One of the marks of a great writer is that they manage to dredge up parallels to our own experiences---and Peggy Noonan did it again for me with this piece. Bless her heart.

EV

[Cincinatus' Wife]

****People think the boomers discovered sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, but it was their parents, really--second-generation Americans home from Anzio and the South Pacific, beginning to leave the safety and social embarrassment of their immigrant parents' religion, informed by what they'd been taught as children about World War I and what happened at Versailles, influenced by Scott and Ernest and the lost generation. Add some Marx and the man in the gray flannel suit, throw in some Vat 69, and some pills. Put that all together, shake it, add a pinch of Freud and pour it out; what you get is party. The greatest generation on Saturday night. They were a great generation and they were more than that, and less. They created the boomers, the welfare state, the world we live in. They were one rocking group, and JFK was very much of them.***

Very interesting.

Thanks for the ping (Hi JohnHuang2) and the Post.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[blackie]

"Peggy Noonan MEGA PING!!"

Right-on, John!