It's true the "Greatest Generation" suffered immensely and accomplished Herculean tasks; they have also profited the most. What's left after that is the table scraps of their feast and the bickering between the successive generations......
Bingo! They gave a lot & in return, they demanded & got a lot.
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They also gave us the Welfare State, Viet Nam, abortion-on-demand...and Jimmy Carter in the WH.