The WWII generation slips away — and takes America with it.
And why not? The current generation doesn’t seem to want to have much of anything to do with it.
For a while I used the FR tagline "We're The First Generation Not Forced To Fight For Our Freedom..And It Shows".
Can't recall why I changed it.
There was a civility to that generation that its successors have not inherited. Unfortunately. It’s not just Congress, either. Civility in our society has deteriorated (almost) to the point of no return. Hopefully things will be better for our grandkids.
You’re right and it’s sad. While the men and woman of today carrying on traditions of our great military, the life these young men and woman is a world away from that that most of the WW2 generation lived. If was just a very different America. My late father-in-law, 4th. Marine Division once sent to an orphanage because his parents just really couldn’t afford to feed him and his six other siblings so he joined the Marine Corps after pearl harbor. He didn’t have much in the way of education but he became a Gunnery Sargent and survived Saipan( where he was first wounded) Tinian and Iwo Jima where he was seriously wounded but that got him the hell out of there. My dad was 13 when the war broke but he had older cousins who served in the Navy, one on the cruiser USS Santa Fe and I’ve spoken before many times of the last of my uncles who passed away two years ago, my Uncle Fred, the son of Polish immigrants who served with the 84th. Inf. Div. during the Battle Of The Bugle and was also severely wounded but made it home. I think those men had the fortitude they did because they just didn’t have so much of the materialism, wealth and opportunity so many kids have today.Doesn’t make todays generation bad, per se, probably just more of a feeling of entitlement as opposed to earning respect and advancement thorough merit and hard work. But I think over all the majority of young Americans are good kids.