Posted on 05/07/2019 1:03:36 PM PDT by srmanuel
I've always been a WW II amateur historian, totally into WW II history, last year on this very day I was with a Stephen Ambrose Historical Tour on Omaha Beach on at the beginning of the Band of Brothers Tour... I will always honor a WW II from the Greatest Generation who passes away... But it hits home after this veteran passes away on the flight home at age 95 after going to the WW II Memorial in Washington It was like he willed himself to live long enough to visit the Memorial then died.... God Bless Him and all those who served...
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Your argument is with Tom Brokaw, who coined the term.
That said, WWII was closer to being an existential threat than WWI. The Cold War was existential but not as satisfying an ending. Considering the Greatest Generation had to live through the Great Depression, then fight a world war, why quibble?
Ronald Drez was our tour director
“I can think of some boys who spent a night in Mogodisu and a few more in Bengazi who are owed much more than they ever got!”
Not to mention a few who were in Vietnam. You cannot overstate what the WWII guys did, but they did not have to make some of the sacrifices that the ones who came later did. In WWII, if you WERE NOT in the military everyone wondered what was wrong with you. In Vietnam, if you WERE in the military everyone wondered what was wrong with you. I was not quite old enough for Vietnam, but serving under those circumstances had to have been a special kind of challenge.
Same here. Ron’s a great guy. Kevin Hymel was his 2nd in command. Kevin writes for all the WWII magazines, mostly about Patton and armor.
The WWII Museum conducts tours, as well. I haven’t been on any of ‘em, but I’d sure like to take two or three.
I won’t flame your posting.
Consider the source of that term. If a liberal lackey like Brokaw thinks they are greatest, then sorry, I can’t trust it.
They cannot be the greatest if they also kept picking FDR as a constant dictator, cheered his commie policies, AND raised the hippie generation via worshipping Dr. Spock.
I consider the greatest American generation to be the first, who were British subjects and eschewed it enduring unbelievable conditions, and still managed to raise loyal hard-working children.
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