Let's face it, our generation to a large part inherited the future these brave souls laid their life down for.
We live what they imagined.
I'll be damned if we don't pass on as bright a future for those we can never meet.
Indeed. Civilization as we know it was forged at Thermopylae/Plataea. Each and every action we take has future consequences, some much more than others. Tomorrow is such a day.