I think a lot of the people from that generation and my Dad’s generation would rather not remember what they battled, although as time moves on and society has changed I think they want the world to remember the times when people did have the courage to do what’s right.
I remember asking my dad what it was like to be on the front lines in Korea. He said, ‘Nellie, the reason any of us fights in war is so that you’d never have to know what it’s like.” But as he gets older I think he wants us to know the past so we can be prepared for the future. He’d like to write a book about the culture of his day - not to glorify the people then, but so that the new generations can know about the times when common sense and decency were a way of life for most.
He’s told about how people in his area survived the Great Depression by selling milk and eggs - about his mom’s role as the postmistress and store owner, how she forgave people their debts and let them “buy” what they needed at no cost, because she would not be responsible for children starving if she could help them. And Mom’s uncle who had gotten wealthy in the stock market and helped out just about everybody in their need when the market crashed.
He’d like the new generations to at least hear about a world that wasn’t upside-down, even when things were very tough.
I am so ashamed of what my generation has done to everything the past generations spent so much to give us.
It boils down to paying the mercies and graces of God forward.
Yes we should thank the generations that fought WW II, Korea and Viet Nam for their sacrifices in the name of freedom. We should also thank the current men and women that currently fight the threat that is Islam.
But as for the mess that the country is in today that mess started with the mothers and fathers of the WW II generation.
Yes we of the current generation must take our share of the blame for permitting it to continue but we are the inheritors of the destruction that began with Theodor Roosevelt and continued with a vengeance during Franklin Roosevelt’s administration. Johnson and Nixon picked up where FDR left off and it has been a march toward tyranny ever since.
Freedom has been under assault for generations. It is not entirely our fault that our country has become the socialist hell hole that it has become. Our forbearers started us down this road.
But this is our country, our home land and we are the only ones who can reverse the course that they set us on. We the living must strive to beat back the hordes of looters and take back those lost freedoms.