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Question about the greatest Generation ever
Dec 6, 2018, 10:23 AM
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I am just curious what made it so great..
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All-In [47795]
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they gave or risked their lives to save England from
Dec 6, 2018, 10:33 AM
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the Nazis
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Re: they gave or risked their lives to save England from
Dec 6, 2018, 10:38 AM
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Russia can claim more cedit over securing that victory than the US. Heck, even Yugo Slavia lost more troops than the united states, let alone all of the civilian casualties that Europe and Japan lost. Sorry, I can not say this makes them the greatest generation, swooping in at the end of a war on foreign soil and taking credit does not make you a winner.
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I would agree to an extent. Our greatest generation was
Dec 6, 2018, 10:41 AM
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our founding generation. They gave us the give of American Democracy
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Re: I would agree to an extent. Our greatest generation was
Dec 6, 2018, 10:42 AM
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I think that was a better generation for sure, they did not leave us insurmountable debt over a 30 year period. Can we start calling them the most prosperous generation instead, because I am not seeing great when you look at the entire body of work.
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Re: they would have lost without the USA
Dec 6, 2018, 10:49 AM
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hard to say whether or not Russia would have outlasted the nazis. The world would look a lot different either way.
but let us get into what happened after that, when we took a 20 year head start in Manufacturing while Europe and Japan rebuilt, then pizzed it away. That would not make any generation great in my book.
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Gotta disagree there...
Dec 6, 2018, 11:14 AM
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Hitler's invasion of the USSR was pretty stupid and contributed greatly to the downfall, but having to take us on from the West secured the victory. Without us, you're looking at possibly just a stalemate or more prolonged war. That would assume Great Britain could recover to mount a counter-attack... some experts believe had Hitler maintained the bombing campaign on them for a few more months, they would have been forced to surrender.
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Re: Gotta disagree there...
Dec 8, 2018, 1:18 PM
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Hitler needed Russian resources.
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Lol. Wow.
Dec 10, 2018, 10:22 AM
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“Swooping in at the end of a war on foreign soil and taking credit,”
What I’ve come to appreciate on this board is when long-time posters put large flashing signs up on their posts to say “DO NOT TAKE THIS POST SERIOUSLY OBVIOUSLY I AM JUST TRYING TO BE ARGUMENTATIVE.”
Thanks, Balm!
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Because people didn't complain about Christmas songs.***
Dec 6, 2018, 10:36 AM
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POTD?***
Dec 6, 2018, 10:40 AM
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I'm guessing the racism.***
Dec 6, 2018, 10:39 AM
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Re: I'm guessing the racism.***
Dec 6, 2018, 10:41 AM
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that is true, the greatest generation was also the most racist. What else did they accomplish other than surviving ww2 in america?
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You think the “Greatest Generation” was USA’s most racist?***
Dec 6, 2018, 11:08 AM
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Well, earlier they made the founding fathers the Greatest
Dec 6, 2018, 11:19 AM
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Generation. Considering slavery was still cool, its possible.
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Nope, that's not it.
Dec 6, 2018, 12:02 PM
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Racism existed well before, and much, much worse, and it still exists today. A bad thing for sure, but thank God the greatest generation was there to take perhaps the biggest, most important ever leap forward with civil rights legislation.
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The Civil Rights Act was 1964***
Dec 6, 2018, 1:15 PM
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The house and senate was comprised largely of the
Dec 6, 2018, 3:27 PM
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"Greatest Generation".
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Well, you didn’t write that in German, sooooo...
Dec 6, 2018, 11:07 AM
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Or Japanese. Seem to recall Pearl Harbor was important***
Dec 6, 2018, 11:50 AM
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The results that came with hardship, service, and sacrifice.
Dec 6, 2018, 11:57 AM
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You are welcome.
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Wait are boomers trying to get lumped in?***
Dec 6, 2018, 11:58 AM
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No.***
Dec 6, 2018, 12:02 PM
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Then why the "You are welcome" at the end of your
Dec 6, 2018, 12:03 PM
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post.
Seems like a Chesty thing to say
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It was a smart ### remark in a thread full of
Dec 6, 2018, 12:21 PM
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smart ### (or maybe dumb ###) remarks that started out with a smart ###/dumb ### question.
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Cool.***
Dec 6, 2018, 1:58 PM
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I think this is a worthy topic
Dec 8, 2018, 1:15 PM
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Boomers should step up and defend this mess at the very least. Let's not continue to obfuscate, cause they will all be dead soon and their voices might have one last chance to be heard.
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"boomers"...lulz
Dec 10, 2018, 11:45 AM
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Do they have a spokesperson? Who is this unified front of "boomers" that have ruined your life?
I guess you'll be looking for reparations as well?
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if you want to sit through all the dramatic Hollywood tripe
Dec 6, 2018, 2:00 PM
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go to 4:51 when he finally gives his speech.
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er...If you *don't****
Dec 6, 2018, 2:01 PM
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They secured relative World Peace for 70 years.
Dec 6, 2018, 12:20 PM
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If you look through recorded history...
Total human deaths across the world, yearly, due to warfare, as a percentage of the total human population of the planet...has NEVER been lower than the period since WW2. They did that. And the nuclear bomb as well.
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Re: They secured relative World Peace for 70 years.
Dec 8, 2018, 1:20 PM
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Stopping Hitler and the Japanese is the best thing our country ever did imho.
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Do you even History, bro?
Dec 9, 2018, 4:46 AM
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Read a book or something.
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Re: Question about the greatest Generation ever
Dec 10, 2018, 11:47 AM
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