How can that be when most Americans were not even born when WWII took place or were too young to remember those days. Not many left of the Greatest Generation.
I hear what you’re saying and I agree with you, but most Americans today have other worries to think of. And then there are those, many of them, who downright hate this country.
I myself get the sniffles when I watch the end of “Saving Private Ryan” and “Band of Brothers”.
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I watch interviews and hear how abysmally historically ignorant average Americans often are on major events in history and I never cease to be shocked.
I believe that one can best learn the future by understanding the lessons of the past.
For instance, right now we are plunging headlong into socialism because we are so incredibly freaking ignorant of the lessons of the first half of 20th century America.
I believe that what I said about D-Day, the American effort that brought us victory in WWII stand: we would be a better, stronger, more courageous, and more noble people if we took those lessons to heart.
I understand that what you are essentially saying is not that you don’t WANT that to happen; you just don’t think it WILL happen. And I agree that it probably won’t. But it’s a damn shame.
Can America still produce “great men who change the future”? Ordinary men who don’t think of themselves as “great” or “brave” but who step up and do their duty, with honor, when called upon to do it? Are we turning out men like that? That is the question, isn’t it? Decades of decadence have eroded our moral fiber. Untruthful education and the baleful influence of trash entertainment have turned minds to mush and spines to jello. I see too few great men on the horizon.
Ditto Ditto...I completely agree with you.
Americans have no greater worry than their pervasive ignorance and their tolerance of the very enemy these citizen soldiers fought against.
The old adage, “if don’t learn from history, you are doomed to repeat it”, is being played out in spades in this country.
I wonder if there is still time to turn it around?...I truly do not know the answer to that question.
Thanks for a great post.