The Greatest Generation vs. Gen Z
I’m presently watching Masters of the Air on Apple which is about the bomber crews during World War II. It’s heartbreaking. I also found this statistic:
During 1943, only about 25% of Eighth Air Force bomber crewmen completed their 25-mission tours—the other 75% were killed, severely wounded, or captured
Imagine going up on a mission knowing there was a 75% chance of you not coming back. Do you know what matches that sacrifice? Not eating for 12 whole hours and basically missing lunch at Harvard. What heroes.
Gen Z and sadly, far too many people living in the US, don’t have a clue as to what true heroism really is.
Gen Z could never storm the beaches at Normandy. They could never liberate the concentration camps in Europe.
Gen Z is incapable of standing for true freedom and liberty.
And yet the so-called “Greatest” made this nation safe for totalitarianism, even as they fought it overseas.
The WWII generation were indeed heroic, however, they embraced the awful mental prison of social security and Medicare, and the notion that the federal government was obligated to care for them, no matter the abuses against others that required. They embraced a nascent tyranny, and gave birth to the awful Boomers, the most grasping, vicious generation in modern times. Our economic and political future is a national mausoleum, thanks to the choices of the Most Ironic Generation, and it cemented forever the destruction of the doctor-patient relationship.
Spend any time around elderly patients, zooming state to state in their RVs on their subsidized retirement, and you will never find a more entitled bunch, people in their seventies behaving as though it were they and not their parents that stormed Europe.
Simple math. Most of the so-called greatest generation are dead now. 80 some years since 1940. They’d be in there hundred’s by now. I do agree in years past “they” ran around in RV’s and many had a place to winter in Florida. Many worked for companies that had defined benefit plans and were paid a pension from the companies they worked for. That is long gone now. There may be many not contributing to a 401k or retirement fund, hence when they quit the rest of us (still alive) will be supporting their lifestyle through this idiotic liberal gubbermint we’re stuck with…….
Unless we can vote them out, we’re doomed.
And there was this guy:
https://militaryhallofhonor.com/honoree-record.php?id=226241
That’s right, “The Professor” on “Gilligan’s Island,” a freakin’ real-life war hero.