They folded like cheap suits when the “liberals” wanted to overturn the “establishment”; the beginning of the slippery slope. They watched their children co-habitate, breed without marriage, and overturn basically ervery norm (even making “norm” a bad word); I see no “greatness” there.
Wasn’t Brokaw referring to his father?
Now the “not-so-great” generations are fighting for the right to euthanize the “greatest generation”, as to avoid their retirement costs and end-of-life medical care. I guess someone didn’t pass down a good set of values.
If someone told me (I’m almost 40) that my generation was the “greatest generation”, I’d assume they were kidding. Some great people, certainly not a whole generation. Thankfully, our current economy has my generation taking a right turn beyond my wildest expectations; hopefully this will probably be the group that finally deals with the “illegal alien” question, affirmative action, and other gifts we’ve inherited.
You see, I don’t see it that way. I see that government got in the way of people’s ability to effectively parent.
Again, liberalism.