Bfgrn
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They were called the 'Greatest Generation' for good reason.
They may be called the Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw, but don't forget it was they who gave birth to the beatniks, the hippies and the leftist, revolutionary counter-culture generation, the effects of which we are still suffering from today.
That generation may have endured the depression and defeated world-wide Fascism, but they could easily be considered as parental failures which has had a much more profound effect on the future of America than those other things.
The Vietnam War and the draft gave birth to the beatniks, the hippies and the leftist, revolutionary counter-culture generation.
I was raised by a mother and father from that Greatest Generation. My father enlisted after Pearl Harbor, became a paratrooper in the 11th Airborne, and served in the Pacific theater.
My dad told me not to enlist and was vehemently opposed to the Vietnam War.
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