[llevrok]

The book was a great read.

That book, with "The Greatest Generation", opened so many questions of my parent's young life. To me, that is what a good story should do, not answer all.

I am hoping this movie will do the same.

[backtothestreets]

I'm looking forward to this movie, and admittedly have not read the book.

I too found the book "Greatest Generation" very good. Still I came away thinking my grandparents generation the most unheralded generation. It was their generation that suffered the great loss of life from WWI, the unparalleled loss of some 200,000 lives in a matter of weeks from the flu pandemic, the challenge to feed their families during the Great Depression, then send off their young sons and daughters to fight and serve during WWII. How much grief can a population endure yet not yield?

That Tom Brokaw remembers his family surviving the Great Depression is a greater tribute to those that made survival possible, his parents. That we won WWII is also a great reflection on the heart-wrenching decisions and commitments the parents of the average fighting man had to make and accept as a price for freedom. It was afterall not the decision of the generation of fighting men that implemented the draft or built up our military factories, but their parents generation. I'm deeply touched and awed by all they had to sacrifice throughout their time of leading our great nation. May we one day regain their heart.