What we left you with was a free country. We came home from that bloody war, went to work in the factories, on the farms and in the shops and restaurants. We worked all our lives to bring up children who would reap the benefits that so many of us gave our very lives to secure for them. All we asked was that when we became old, that those later generations would care for us as we had cared for them and had cared for our own parents.
Instead, in our love and zeal that our children never experience A Great Depression, A World War or any of the things we had to endure, we brought up generations of selfish, lazy, perpetually immature brats who value nothing, not even the sanctity of human life. Self is their god and they care for nothing else. Millions of them are still living under the roofs and in the basements of parents and grandparents who have little left that hasn’t been siphoned off by their shiftless, spoiled offspring and grandchildren. The majority of twenty somethings are still living off the parents and grandparents that they call “Locusts”.
We have so insulated them from the harsh realities of life that they think of physical labor as a punishment and any kind of work that may soil their lily white hands as beneath them. Instead, they demand that we furnish them with so called “higher education” where they are taught that right and wrong are relative and that reality is anything they wish it to be. Oh how hard those pipedreams are going to die when all the producers have died off!
Yes, we made a mistake that they will have to pay for and pay dearly! In our love for them, we didn’t demand that they learn the basics of living and that some truths are immutable and can’t be changed. What our parents taught us out of love; my generation withheld out of love from its offspring. What we learned they will have to learn in the same harsh, hellish school of experience. May G-d bless their poor self-centered, clueless little hearts.
The WWII generation left us with a free country, but the Boomers?
I have no issue with the WWII generation. My grandfather lied to get into the Navy when he was 17. Before there were SEALs he was putting bombs on the bottom of Japanese ships with a pair of flippers and a mask/snorkel.
I get that generation, and they made massive sacrifices so that their kids wouldn’t have to do what they had to.
The boomers squandered that and put the cost of it onto their kids, grandkids, etc.
My issue is that boomers aren’t in a position to criticize X’ers or Millenials.
As for the country being free, you really buy that right now? You think we are as free today as we were when the WWII generation handed the keys to the boomers? I think reasonable people would disagree with that assessment of ‘free’.
This is the boomer’s show right now. They’re in charge. I think the jury is out on whether what we are going to be left with when they are finally out to pasture is going to be something a reasonably prudent person would call ‘free’.