No, he is quite expressly separating those out who risked their lives from those who simply were born in the same generation.
His larger point, though I’m not sure why he gets tangled in military and paramilitary weeds here, is that our old folks now are benefiting from a level of government largesse that is on average several times what the put into the system, bankrupting our country by the day, and not sustainable for those who follow.
A simple truth that that generation doesn’t like to hear or acknowledge.
I was a child during WW2...turned 6 just before it ended.
This article made me mad. If he had lived during that time, I think he would have realized it was a war that everybody contributed to in some way...even if it was "only" giving up a dad for a few years or forever. Dads were scarce as were alot of things. I don't remember how it worked but things were rationed and required stamps...coffee and sugar were rationed I remember.
I remember victory gardens, candy that came in paper tanks, rocks were our jacks, we collected newspapers in our wagons and took it to the neighborhood fire station everyweek, kids had little military uniforms. There were air raids that were scary to kids and the worst thing we could call somebody was "Hitler."
Of course I didn't make a big contribution but for those of us who experienced the war, every man, woman, and child was involved in some way because the country was involved.
Soon after the war ended, I remember my mother being excited because rubber balls were being sold in downtown Houston and we went to get me one. I didn't have a clue what a rubber ball was, had never seen one, and they were made out of tire rubber and barely bounced. Didn't matter because we didn't know the differnce...and certainly didn't feel deprived.
I don't know why he's in a snit over the "greatest generation" now because there aren't many left anyway! It was the grandchildren of the GG that never grew up and left home!