[98ZJ USMC]

The contrast between the blithering coddled ones of today and the generation who both lived through the depression *and* stormed the beaches of France is mind-ripping.

To a large extent, it's those same "Greatest Gens" fault. In the understandable desire to be sure that what they went through would not happen again; naïve, but understandable, they created the most self-centered, character-defective generation in history. They refused to believe a lot of things that were happening, primarily Communist infiltration of every single institution in this country. Not all did, of course, but enough to start the slow spiral downward.

The service they preformed, along and the WWI generation was heroic. On par with anything in our history. Unfortunately, the destruction done by turning their backs on tried and true parental technique, in favor or that espoused by Communists and radical liberals, may be irreversible.

I'm a tail-end Boomer (I consider myself Generation Jones) and I have absolutely nothing in common with Boomers.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I have trouble with that view even if it is historically correct, and it probably is. They didn’t have the touchy-feely stuff back then and it is largely BECAUSE they didn’t have the touchy feely back then that we had men who could storm beaches under machine gun fire.

That they also had the shortcoming of failing to impart one last piece of morality when they got the rest of it pretty right is in many ways nitpicking, even if (and I cannot disagree with you) that that missing nit was and is responsible for much of what we face today. They were not building a nuclear reactor nor advanced fighter place where the undone last .25% destroyed the whole project. Certainly, nobody informed them that they did.