It’s no surprise that this was truley the greatest generation. What the hell happened? The self sacrifice and love of country is unmatched. We have been pushed into the cesspool by the bottom dwellers. We have a long climb ahead of us if it’s not to late
Proof of this is we now have John Kerry as secretary of state
Actor Charles Durning died yesterday. He was in the first wave of soldiers hitting the beaches at Normandy and the only member of his Army unit to survive. He was captured by the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge. He will be buried at Arlington. Another member of the greatest generation to pass.
The “Greatest Generations” were the first 80 years of America, it wasn’t the FDR through Jimmy Carter generations, like all generations there was good and bad.
Only a left wing media could create the mind washing creation of “the greatest generation”, especially in regards to the ones who destroyed us.
*”Kennedy seems to have inherited the resentment his father Joseph felt as an outsider in Boston’s WASP aristocracy. He voted against the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, and supported various refugee acts throughout the 1950s.
In 1958 he wrote a book, A Nation of Immigrants, which attacked the quota system as illogical and without purpose, and the book served as Kennedy’s blueprint for immigration reform after he became president in 1960.
In the summer of 1963, Kennedy sent Congress a proposal calling for the elimination of the national origins quota system. He wanted immigrants admitted on the basis of family reunification and needed skills, without regard to national origin.
After his assassination in November, his brother Robert took up the cause of immigration reform, calling it JFK’s legacy. In the forward to a revised edition of A Nation of Immigrants, issued in 1964 to gain support for the new law, he wrote, “I know of no cause which President Kennedy championed more warmly than the improvement of our immigration policies.”
Sold as a memorial to JFK, there was very little opposition to what became known as the Immigration Act of 1965.””*
And IMHO, that WWII, Greatest Generation hero devolved into a tax-and-spend, play-Santa Claus, vote-buying liberal political hack right up there with Ted Kennedy, et al.
I’ll never forget the hell he raised over Watergate, hounding Nixon right out of office for what amounted to a college fraternity panty raid; But when Slick Willie was selling missile secrets to the Ching-Changs, and overnights in the Lincoln Bedroom for campaign contributions, and seasoning cigars and getting hummers in the Oval Office, all we heard out of Senator In-No-Way, et al was the chirping of crickets.