If you see an active duty serviceman today, thank him.
Oh, wait. You can’t. There aren’t any.
Today’s kids are all cocoa-sipping pajamaboy snowflakes.
It has to be true: I read it on the interwebz.
Back then a young man could BE a man. Nowadays with all the political correctness nonsense men arn’t sure how they are supposed to act. Plus I’m sure many of those soldiers were scared to death kids who stepped up when they had to. I’ve also heard that alcoholism was rampant in the military but everything looks better in hindsight.
Don’t forget that that “Greatest Generation” came back from the war and raised the “Baby Boomers”, many of whom were spoiled very much by their veteran parents.
Those Hippy generation Boomers were then sent to Vietnam where they thought it would be Aldo Ray, John Wayne and “Back to Bataan” fight all over again which it was not.
Then those same Boomers rallied the nation to stop compulsory military duty in 1973. Those elder and younger Boomers then had kids who grew up even more spoiled and soft with no sense of duty.
This in turn led to a nation of mostly slugs and enetltlement snowflakes of which we bitch about today but who is responsible if not both the Greatest generation AND their kids, the Boomers?
BTW I am a Boomer...