I never understood the whole “greatest generation” nonsense anyway. Okay, the good guys won WWII and everyone sacrificed. Of course the alternative was to lose and live under totalitarianism. So really, they just did what they were supposed to do. WWII was no cake walk and there were countless heroic patriots fighting, but there countless heroic patriots in Korea, Viet Nam, Grenada (okay maybe not countless but still heroic patriots), Desert Storm and the GWOT.
They have become a very grasping and self-centered generation since then (there are notable exceptions of course), and, as someone mentioned earlier, gave birth to the worst generation.
“They have become a very grasping and self-centered generation since then (there are notable exceptions of course), and, as someone mentioned earlier, gave birth to the worst generation.”
They did raise the worst generation, I’ll give you that. But I think they were the greatest generation. They survived the depression, they won WWII, carried on the idustrial revolution making America the most productive country in the world and were the ones who got us to the moon.
The greatest generation subscribed to the melting pot, and developed a public school system that was very good. The ideals, goals, and philosophy of the “greatest generation” were top shelf. Look at the media from the time, the things expressed in movies. Things that they tried to teach their kids.
But, they do have one large failure. They tried to give their kids too much. Tough love was not commonly known or practiced. They gave us the boomers, but they did make America. The greatest generation subscribed to the melting pot, and developed a public school system that was very good.