Warsaw Uprising 1944, the fighters would frequently walk through the sewers to escape capture from the Germans.
Watch the movie "Warsaw 44" and see how that compares to what these snowflakes are going through now.
Posted on 04/27/2020 8:41:20 AM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
See if you can find Private Ryan at the coffee bar.
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We were hit by a viral infection. Several thousand died from flu like complications. Health care workers doing what they do. Help with the sick. System claimed to be overburdened. Same old song and dance. It was. Once said, when you go to war you have to fight with what you have to fight with. I’m done. Let’s get back to work for crimps sake!!!!
Amen!
“The United States is in the grips of a global pandemic unlike anything ever...”
You liars!!!
Stop it!!!
Warsaw Uprising 1944, the fighters would frequently walk through the sewers to escape capture from the Germans.
Watch the movie "Warsaw 44" and see how that compares to what these snowflakes are going through now.
We're being told to stay home and watch tv and wash our hands.
There's no comparison to what those guys were asked to do and what we're being asked to do.
I nominate for post of the COVID-19 outbreak.
A difference between today’s hiccup and WW2 is that we fought WW2 with a tremendous amount of military and civilian activity, whereas we fight today’s hiccup by most of us doing nothing.
This is utter Bovine Scatology!
Julie, dear, this is a f'n joke, right ?
oy vey - not even close.
We have devolved into a nation of snowflakes that can’t make a decision. Most of the country is sitting on their asses waiting for the government to come and save them.
My father, who fought in WWII, was part of the “Greatest Generation”. Kids today, who are locked away in their safe space becoming germophobic hermits, may be thought of in the future as the “Wimpiest Generation”.
I stole it from another thread on FE about the way the press has been treating Trump
We may be comparable if we stand for freedom, tell the government to shove it and end political correctness tyranny. That’s a tall order, but it would in itself be a different form of greatness.
Can’t really compare the generations though. My parents went through a lot. My father was on Guadalcanal.
Where’s the facepalm guy?
Astounding someone could even consider writing something like this.
“I had to return to my office today after working from home for a month. I guess I’m just like the guys who stormed Omaha Beach in 1944! /s”
And Ellen thinks being “locked down” in her mansion is like being in jail.
“Sacrificing Liberty never saves lives”. Quote the opposite in fact.
Let’s add up the consequences of the Progressive agenda and see if sacrificing liberty to save lives is in fact a good trade:
Stalin 60,000,0000
Hitler 21,000,000
Mao 45,000,000
and that’s a very short list.
The numbers are debatable of course but all for the better good. No sacrifice to heavy for the making of the Progressive state.
Thus was born the Greatest Generation, the term popularized by Tom Brokaw's 1998 book on the men and women who sacrificed without complaint for a cause bigger than they were.
"They stayed true to their values of personal responsibility, duty, honor, and faith," wrote Brokaw of a demographic that rarely even spoke about the war with their children or grandchildren. The family of military veterans, especially, only learned the cost of their sacrifices decades later through movies like 1998's "Saving Private Ryan."
Today, the danger seems as huge as the patriotic measures we're taking seem ordinary. To save lives, Americans are being asked to wash their hands frequently, cough into their elbows, stay six feet away from other people and, well, watch a lot of Netflix.
Yet this advice is vital, not just to us as individuals, but as responsible members of society. As former CBS News anchor Dan Rather tweeted recently, "Are you really doing your service in the battle for the health and welfare of America by just staying home? Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Um, YES!"
The latest generations aren't quiet. Their mass sharing of fears, anxieties and ironic jokes on Facebook and hipper sites is a far cry from the reticence of the Greatest Generation. So are some of their knee-jerk responses. Growing tomatoes at home in a victory garden is a world apart from hoarding toilet paper —- a habit that's the only March Madness currently in progress.
I think the above suffices to show that despite any attempts to show the two generations and conflicts as heroic, that we can hardly be compared with the "Greatest Generation" (yet who raised the boomers, a mix of liberals and conservatives, which raised more on for the liberal side, which in turn raised even more of the same).
I have often said that we could not fight WW2 today in its terms, due to the lack of character (besides the overall loss of our once extensive industrial base). The fear and implicit long-term compliance to all-ages extreme restrictions based upon misleading models and superficial and erroneous reasoning and lack of objectivity and perspective, and hype of a powerful pervasive and persuasive and often perverse media is what is scary. Such could not never have built this nation, and will be instruments of its destruction, as a result of believing and trusting in man over faith in the God of the Bible,thus being captives to fear and manipulated by the devil.
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