The WW II vet is a big part of my earliest memories: My Grandfather...the VFW...his buddies...etc. they were great, hard working men. Yet...their politics. They left us with the modern democratic party run by their spoiled brat children who are bound and determined to ruin the country they fought for.
They made great warriors...but really crappy parents (by and large). I'm not sure if it was their exposure to hard times and trauma or what...but most of these guys did not govern like the warriors they were (even McCain)...and their kids are worse.
Err...McCain is not a WWII vet. Strange post to say the least.
I suspect that largely it had more to do with depression era childhoods than wartime experience. They simply wanted their kids to have things better than they did, and in many cases, went way overboard.
From unionizing government, to Vietnam, to the 1965 Immigration Act, JFK was the end of us.
“However, if there is one man who can take the most credit for the 1965 act, it is John F. Kennedy. 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.”