Greatest Generation: Courage and Loyalty Beat Fear

American Thinker.com ^ | April 23, 2021 | J.B, Shurk

[Kaslin]

I was finishing up breakfast in town when I overheard one WWII veteran tell another WWII veteran to put his money away because he'd already picked up his check. When the man in line to pay protested, his friend said matter-of-factly, "You saved my life too many times. I wouldn't have been here all these years if it weren't for you. I owe you everything and certainly breakfast."

I didn't know the gentlemen, and I don't know their story, but as a silent witness to the looks of tender understanding visible on both men's faces, I would say that those two soldiers had seen hell, and that for one of them, the last seventy-five years would not have come to pass but for the actions and/or sacrifices of his brother-in-arms. That brief moment between the two was so powerful and personal that I felt a little like a thief for having been present. I wasn't watching one man paying a debt, one breakfast at a time. I was watching two men acknowledge with hardly a word a lifetime of mutual loyalty.

Loyalty is in short supply these days.

Those same men who still carry the scars of defending the United States against the global spread of totalitarianism have lived long enough to watch totalitarianism seep inside the country's borders under more innocuous names such as the "Green New Deal" and the "Great Reset." They've lived long enough to go from being celebrated as part of the "Greatest Generation" for sacrificing so much during the '30s and '40s to being routinely demonized as "white supremacists" and "extremists" for insisting on respecting the National Anthem or demanding that the Constitution not be abused and that the Declaration of Independence not be betrayed.

[BobL]

“Greatest Generation: Courage and Loyalty Beat Fear”

And then they got home, moved to suburbs and started to raise kids. Make that ‘have kids’. They didn’t raise them, they didn’t tell them what they saw, they didn’t tell them how bad things could get if bad people took power - they SHIELDED them from all that.

Then they sent their now-oblivious and defenseless offspring to universities where the Communist professors there had free reign to brainwash them into thinking that this was a terrible country, and we got the Hippie Generation, who then sprinkled their hatred of this country far and wide. And two generations later, we’re seeing the results of this - open borders, race wars, stolen elections, freedoms on the verge of being lost permanently.

This ‘Greatest Generation’ DROPPED THE BALL, and it’s next to impossible to see how this country ever recovers.

[foreverfree]

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[jmacusa]

Indeed. Probably the biggest fault of that generation was it’s unwillingness to share with it’s offspring the realities of politics, war, demagoguery, false prophets and the consequences of trying to appease evil in the hope that evil can be appeased.

But one must consider that every generation either is taught or absorbs the values of the generation that raises it and the WW2 generation was raised to keep it’s personal problems to itself, trust government, shut up and do what you’re told and most of all don’t talk about horrific things like war and combat.

Just get over it and get on with your life.