[G Larry]

You grow up when you're faced with reality.

Adolescences persists for as long as you're coddled and protected from reality.

[elcid1970]

Those 18-20 year old WWII Marines (and sailors and pilots and infantry) all look like they’re 30 in photographs.

They did grow up fast, starting with the Depression.

When they made the film Memphis Belle in 1990, the actors looked like kids wearing their Dads’ uniforms.

[DoodleBob]

Lotsa truth there. I know the daughter of a man who was part of the anti-Nazi resistance in the 1930s, who went back to fight after escaping from Nazi jail. Incredible.

When I told her "I will never be half the Man your father was" it was clear I wasn't the first guy who'd expressed this entiment: she said her father responded to such comments with "you have no idea how you'd respond if you were in my situation."

Each generation thinks they are the Greatest and the successive lot are a bunch of losers...it happened to the Boomers, Gen X, and now Millenials. And yet, America comprises 4% of the global population but produces 24% of global GDP. SOMEBODY is working.

Articles like this need some aged cheese to accompany the whine. Every generation has slackers. At the same time, I know many Millenials who are of good, Deplorable stock who don't eat pods and thus don't get the attention they deserve. They should be nurtured, cultivated, and brought into the fold - we need every vote and every borderline Normal person to be red-pilled asap.