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But my greatest fear is that it will become known as America's 'last generation.' Born in the bleakness of the Great Depression and hardened in the fire of WW II, they may be the last American generation that understands the meaning of duty, honor and sacrifice. It is difficult to admit, but I know these terms are spoken with only hollow detachment by many (but not all) in my generation. Too many citizens today mistake 'living in America' as 'being an American.'

Excellent post.

But I call BS on the above statement. They did fight and die in WWII; BUT they raised the hippy generation, started America down the socialistic path with FDR's domestic "solutions", and %70-%90 will turn out to vote Kerry for all their "gimmies"; I'm not seeing the duty, honor and sacrifice there.

Well, I think the reasoning behind the "hippies" (which like you, I despise with a lot of disgust) is that the World War II generation had it so hard with Depression and war is "they wanted to see their kids have better." I think they might have overspoiled them a bit and we ended up with the hippies. In short, we've gotten fat and lazy on the whole. I know it is every parent's dream to see their kids have it better, but I often wonder if the hippie generation had it too good.