"What difference does it make?"
Posted on 06/06/2013 4:31:05 AM PDT by Biggirl
One of the Bay State’s dwindling number of D-Day veterans recalls the Normandy Invasion — 69 years ago today — as a day when he and other young men “made a difference.”
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Yes, they sure did. God bless each and every one of them.
With my endless gratitude, SueRae
"What difference does it make?"
Older Boomers served in Vietnam, G-d Bless ‘em but those of us too young to serve in that war were spoiled and raised to hate the military, the establishment, the government and see conspiracies and cover-ups everywhere.
Our parents WWII generation were indeed the “Greatest Generation”, people made out of steel. Are we made out of wet toilet paper in comparison?
And to think that we have twice elected a foreign communist to destroy what they saved. I hang my head in shame.
Thanks for the post
There were younger boomers with gen x who served in the first Persian Gulf war. I have a cousin who now drives a truck who served in the army during that conflict.
Your welcome!
THANK-YOU to all who have served in the armed forces.
There isn’t a pedestal high enough for our brave men and women who wore, and continue to wear, the Uniform of Our Nation.
A simple “Thank You” seems inadequate and insignificant, but...
THANK YOU
You are owed a debt that cannot be repaid.
Yes sir, you did. Thank you.
Say, younger Boomers who served not at all as opposed to Gen. Xers who served in Gulf War and II and since but that still leaves millions of folks who grew up ANTI-US, anti, anti, anti and they are now middle aged folks voting for the likes of BHO.
Those of us that lived through the JFK and RFK assassinations followed by The Pentagon Papers, Watergate and Nixon resigning (1974) were all left with a very ANTIness that has a carry over effect on how people see the nation, the military and the direction of the country today.
Gulf War I helped restore American pride and so did 9/11 but where is the momentum after BHO?
I don’t disagree with a lot of what you’ve said, but let’s be brutally frank here. This idea of the WW2 generation as the “Greatest Generation” is really a lot of nonsense. Most of the political and social ills that are attributed to “Baby Boomers” were implemented in this country long before any of these people had political influence. You can lay the blame for every one of these things (legalized abortion, a massive entitlement state, race-based “tribal” politics, excusing criminal/pathological behavior, open borders, etc.) squarely on the shoulders of elected officials, appointed judges, and unelected bureaucrats from the “Greatest Generation.”
Those WW2 veterans were surely much better men than I, but for some reason I never thought there was anything "American" about landing on a beach in France under fire from German soldiers just because some @ssholes in Washington said it was important to do that.
Is our generation (Baby Boomers) worthy of their sacrifice at Normandy or at Iwo Jima?
NO
Our parents WWII generation were indeed the “Greatest Generation”, people made out of steel. Are we made out of wet toilet paper in comparison
YES
If you look at the time period these Greatest Generationers (GGs) lived, you must have some kind of amazement in them, no? Many were born around or just after the trauma of WWI, influenza (1917) a boom, lived through a bust economy, WWII, a Cold War and trying to put America back on the civilian consumer track via their GI Bills. They did a heck of a lot, no? Moreover, they did not GRIPE ABOUT IT.
No doubt the GGs paved the way for many of today's ills but they did so much as compared to us, the spoon fed, “me” generation. The “me” generation paved the way for the iPhone and comfort technologies and information at your fingertips...in order to do what? Gain information and...SHOP.
The U.S. didn't even have a "Baby Boomer" in the White House until 1992. The very first Baby Boomers (I'll use 1946 as the year to define this) weren't even eligible to serve in the House of Representatives until 1971. They couldn't serve in the U.S. Senate until 1976. The "Greatest Generation" didn't lose its dominant place in U.S. politics until the 1980s.
I don't belong to either generation, so it doesn't matter to me in the long run. But to think this country was fouled up by the Boomers is really laughable.
I do not think that Americans went ashore at Normandy just because a-holes in Washington said they had to do it. The conquest of Europe by Nazi Germany would have spread eventually to the shores of New England had they not been stopped and pushed back in Europe. The Japanese had similar plans so, while it may not be American to fight other people on other people’s soil, it is very American to STOP evil from progressing...
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