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=== You obviously know nothing about that generation. You should remain silent rather than spew ignorance.

Actually, I just turned 40 but have all four of my grandparents still living and consider all of them to be close friends of mine. I know plenty about that generation and admire greatly the sort of people they turned out to be as a result of the hardships they endured.

What I don't understand is how they think to rest on their Depression/WWII-era laurels the rest of their lives ... saddling us with the most self-indulgent bunch of Materialist boomer progeny the world's ever seen and strongarming the State for whatever handouts they find necessary to perpetuate their FDR-entitlement mentality when they should know damned good and well there's no way in hell their progeny -- particularly the Incredibly Shrinking numbers of what would have been a natural complement of grandchildren absent state-sanctioned birth control -- are going to manage to shoulder that burden.

But ... particularly given the way their children and grandchildren have turned out ... it's possible this Generation doesn't and never did give them much thought beyond saturating them with the Material Goods which sorta precluded anyone's learning the sort of lessons privation brings.

For it's readily apparent that either they -- or the State at whose teat they're only too willing to suck -- has managed somehow to destroy in a mere generation the "faith of the fathers" it was their obligation to instill in their young. Even the Oompa-Loompas know enough to blame The Mother and the Father when children end up undisciplined, selfish, brattish consumers with few, if any, redeeming qualities.

This monument is a colossal tribute to just that sort of myopic "all about me" attitude. It's only fitting the State stuck it to 'em by rewriting a more Politically Correct version of the Great War by which to remember them. That handwriting was on the wall in spades the moment American troops started "redistributing" Poles, hanging White Russians out to dry and inviting over to our BSCE and NIH the worst of the human experimenters (Japanese AND German) the moment the war was over.

But ... particularly given the way their children and grandchildren have turned out ... it's possible this Generation doesn't and never did give them much thought beyond saturating them with the Material Goods which sorta precluded anyone's learning the sort of lessons privation brings.

There must be some sort of miscommunication here. I do not consider anyone born after 1924 to be part of the WWII generation. I think the generation you are referring to is my parent's, in which case I agree with you. I can assure you my grandmpa and grandma did not shower anyone with Material Goods. They learned from the Depression and were very tight with money right up until they day they died.