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I know what the men of the WWII generation were like, including my dad, who was in the army/air force during WWII. I also know what the whining, neotenous teens are like today, because I deal with classes of them daily. Everything is too much for them. They can't think their way out of a wet paper sack for the most part. They don't know how to take initiative. They cannot follow directions. Except for about 20%, who are absolutely wonderful kids who have to be a source of pride for their parents, the rest would probably be killed in battle in 10 minutes by not following orders, doing something stupid, trying to get high, etc.

I had a recent experience during a school lockdown, where it was thought that 2 masked gunmen were wandering the halls. I was locked in a room with 3 other teachers and 4 upper class high school students. I explained to the students, via a note, that they could not, under any circumstances, talk because if there were indeed gunmen wandering the halls, they would be listening for conversations which would give away positions of potential victims. What do you think happened? They had to shushed up EVERY TWO MINUTES for TWO HOURS until the lockdown was called off. Even under emergency conditions such as we experienced, they could not summon the maturity or intelligence to shut the hell up when our lives could have depended on it.

Do they compare to the similarly aged men of my father's generation? Absolutely not. Thank you libs.