Posted on 05/26/2017 1:04:44 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
One of nine kids born to a second-generation immigrant family in windy, rural Diller, Neb. (population 327), Grandma grew up poor, working the family farm during the Great Depression. It was at home — and thus work — that she met my grandfather, who was hired as a farm boy by her dad in the 1930s. They were married in May 1941, him at age 22 and her 21.
Their first leased home had no indoor plumbing or running water. Their plot of land was north of town on Commercial Road, where they planned to start their own corn and bean farm. Just as they were settling down, World War II started up, and Grandpa was on his way to Europe. He would serve for over three years, with stops in Germany and England, as a wartime “mayor” of a regional factory town in the latter.
Grandma had just given birth to their first baby, my uncle Roger. With Elmer in Europe, she had no choice but to run the farm they had just leased. Though she’d grown up on a farm, she’d never driven a tractor. Fall was coming, and no one else was coming to do the work. So she jerry-rigged a way to attach the baby’s bassinet to the side of the lumbering old John Deere as she taught herself to harvest.
Elda regarded this fact as 100 percent uninteresting. “It was simply what needed to be done.” I know this story not because she ever thought to offer it but because I was always interrogating my grandparents for war stories as a child.
There was a matter-of-factness about them that, in fact, wasn’t extraordinary for much of their generation.
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Sasse has been making the talk show circuit trying to make himself important.
The guy is a flake.
The generation has known no real adversity. So they have to invent it. Thus the safe spaces and inflated traumas that threaten their coccoon.
A very astute observation, I agree!
This generation is in for a rude awakening when jihad comes to their neighborhood
They are no worse than any other generation, it’s just that we are older and get to hide our secrets from them.
I can’t speak with any real knowledge about the “greatest generation” who came of age in the Second World War, but I think they at least could be excused for any lapses, that was a bit different.
The other generations? C’mon, we all know better than to suggest there is anything particularly wrong with the millennials. Same as it ever was. (water flowing under)
I say this with the utmost sincerity: fu@k this guy.
They all, well maybe not "all", have NO spine and no brains at all.
Nobody has EVER expected them to grow up, nor made them do so, so they act and react like very small children.
To a millenial:
There has always been an internet.
There have always been computers.
There have always been cell phones.
There have always been televisions.
There have always been radios.
There have always been landline telephones.
There have always been cable services.
There have always been washing machines.
There have always been clothes dryers.
There have always been electricity.
There have always been indoor plumbing.
There have always been plenty of food in stores.
There have always been automobiles.
There have always been anything you want at your fingertips...................
Sasse can be wrong about a lot of stuff, but he is right about this.
They don't know how bad it can be and therefor they are happy to give their freedoms away — their freedom of speech (by regulating, controlling and restricting speech), their wealth (in support high taxes and socialized everything, carbon tax/global warming), their right to defend themselves (by allowing others to eliminate the 2nd amendment), etc. etc.
They are fools and ingrates.
And it wouldn’t take much for the system that provides these luxuries to collapse.
neverTrumper Ben Sasse
But each generation seems to get worse or the starting point from which to drop is lower with each generation.
Some of the things that we are debating these days would have been unheard of years ago — gay marriage for one. Not being able to say Merry Christmas in public school is another.
Also, the Democrat party used to have some integrity. Now it is pretty much anything goes.
There have been improvements, too. But we have tossed the baby out with the bathwater.
For many, just seeing the word “Trump” sends them into a world of pain.
I need to stock up on more dried beans.
Millennials are the antichrist generation.
They have all the ingredients for totalitarianism and murderous killings.
The depraved mind Paul talks about in Romans 1:18-32 is literally their generation perfectly described.
It’s not just millennials those scriptures describe; its ALL liberals.
Funny. My grandmother had a 20 lb bag of beens in her pantry for years. The same bag.
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