Whenever I hear the term "greatest generation", I always feel appreciation for what they did during the war, but then I wonder how many of that generation then let their children grow up to be anti-American hippie socialists.
Stretch Here: The Old Geezer... You got a wrong idea of the guys who fought in WW2. We were the products of the greatest depression in history.... wages from 5 cents to 15 cents an hour.... if you could find a job. small farmers so poor that they couldn't feed their horses enough food to give them the strength to pull a plow; or a cow so starved that she couldn't give but a cup of milk a day. kids wearing the same clothes to work the fields, clean the horse -s8672, wear to school or church... Soldiers and sailors entering the war for a salary of only7 $21.00 per month. When theyy came home we gave them the GI bill to allow some, who had the education, to go to college fsree... to allow them to buy a home at a reduced interest rate, if one could afford to make the payments. Most of these guys are now in our 80's.... many never having made a salary of over 6 or 7 dollars an hour for all the years they worked. Wages were still low in the 70's. I know, that in my trade the union wage reached $5.00 an hour in 70.
YOU ARE critizing the wrong generation, buddy...Many, many vy age with a family never retired with anything more than a cheap house and a used car to show for their lifetime of work. Small town America held many back.... no opportunities.... Why did some make it big and others never getting ahead?? lack of a decent education; poor schooling in their early years; quitting school in their early teens to help on the farm..... many, many things