The Greatest Generation was great for more than their service. They didn't complain about being entitled to what the greedy bastards claim to be entitled to these days. Just duty and get on with your life. No bitching. Why it is so galling to hear the privileged complain about not having it all. Crap on chump, Bezos, Musk and the whole crew
The Greatest Generation was great for more than their service. They didn't complain about being entitled to what the greedy bastards claim to be entitled to these days. Just duty and get on with your life. No bitching. Why it is so galling to hear the privileged complain about not having it all. Crap on chump, Bezos, Musk and the whole crew
I agree. The Great Depression made that generation a good generation for enduring that deprivation. Fighting and winning World War II made that generation a great generation for its valor. What made that generation the greatest generation, however, is what the men and women did after World War II in social policies and the safety net. A privileged kid out of a private college may have served next to the son of a plumber. The former may well have thought, "Why should that plumber NOT get the chance for a college education."
De-segregation started with that generation. Obviously, older people like Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower helped enormously. Yet, I believe, that each followed the tacit mandate of mass participation in an existential depression and war.
Yes, exactly, and Japan united a country that was divided, sort of like now. See Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden in 1939. Shocked me to my core when I first saw the pics.
The Greatest Generation was great for more than their service. They didn't complain about being entitled to what the greedy bastards claim to be entitled to these days. Just duty and get on with your life. No bitching. Why it is so galling to hear the privileged complain about not having it all. Crap on chump, Bezos, Musk and the whole crew
I agree. The Great Depression made that generation a good generation for enduring that deprivation. Fighting and winning World War II made that generation a great generation for its valor. What made that generation the greatest generation, however, is what the men and women did after World War II in social policies and the safety net. A privileged kid out of a private college may have served next to the son of a plumber. The former may well have thought, "Why should that plumber NOT get the chance for a college education."
De-segregation started with that generation. Obviously, older people like Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower helped enormously. Yet, I believe, that each followed the tacit mandate of mass participation in an existential depression and war.
Yes, exactly, and Japan united a country that was divided, sort of like now. See Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden in 1939. Shocked me to my core when I first saw the pics.