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		The "Greatest Generation" clamored for loans and subsidies and special favors that breed political corruption, civilian cynicism, and that reward the inefficient at the expense of the capable.
		The "Greatest Generation" focused their collective will on "public" education and poured hundreds of billions into a slave-system of "learning" that produces mounting illiteracy, ethically challenged students, and ignorance on a massive scale.
		The "Greatest Generation" gave us the "greatest" society only in the sense that the State we endure now is the greatest in size, the greatest in power, and the greatest in hubris we have seen this side of a police state.
	home.earthlink.net /~rdmadden/webdocs/Greatest_Generation.html (1158 words)

	Greatest Generation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term is derived from the title of a best-selling book by Tom Brokaw and is generally assumed to mean those born in the United States from about 1911 through 1924, with an alternate label, that of the Interbellum Generation, sometimes applied to persons born from 1901 through 1910.
		In contrast to the Interbellum Generation, whose children were predominantly members of the Silent Generation, the Greatest Generation went on to give birth to the majority of the Baby Boomers, who then challenged their authority during the turbulent 1960s and early 1970s, especially over the issue of the Vietnam War.
		Members of the Greatest Generation held the office of President of the United States continuously from 1969 until 1993 (Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greatest_Generation (266 words)

	Silent Generation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The phrase gained further currency after William Manchester's comment that the members of this generation were "withdrawn, cautious, unimaginative, indifferent, unadventurous and silent." The name was used by Strauss and Howe in their book Generations as their designation for that generation in the United States of America born from 1925 to 1942.
		The generation is also known as the Postwar Generation and the Seekers, when it is not neglected altogether and placed by marketers in the same category as the G.I., or "Greatest", Generation.
		The impact of the generation was also great culturally, as the musicians and thinkers such as Paul McCartney, John Lennon and Bob Dylan who shaped the fashions of the younger boomers and formed the engine behind the 1960s and 1970s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silent_Generation (680 words)

	G.I. Generation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The G.I. Generation is the generation of Americans that fought and won World War II, later to become the Establishment and the parents who had a generation gap with their Boomer children.
		The generation is also known as the Greatest Generation (after Tom Brokaw's book), the World War II Generation, the Veteran Generation, the Depression Generation, Builders, and the Traditional Generation or Traditionalists.
		The name "G.I. Generation" was coined by William Strauss and Neil Howe for their book Generations, who put its birthdates from 1901 to 1924, although some, including Brokaw, confine it to approximately the later-born half of this segment, the earlier half sometimes being referred to by an alternate label, the Interbellum Generation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/G.I._Generation (825 words)

	Tom Brokaw \| Books
		The Greatest Generation Speaks • The Greatest Generation
		As I walked the beaches with the American veterans who had returned for this anniversary, men in their sixties and seventies, and listened to their stories, I was deeply moved and profoundly grateful for all they had done.
		This generation was united not only by a common purpose, but also by common values--duty, honor, economy, courage, service, love of family and country, and, above all, responsibility for oneself.
	www.randomhouse.com /features/brokaw/books_greatest.html (306 words)

	The Greatest Generation? by Howard Zinn
		I refuse to celebrate them as "the greatest generation" because in doing so we are celebrating courage and sacrifice in the cause of war.
		I submit as additional candidates for "the greatest generation" those Americans who, in the decades before the Civil War, struggled against the takeover of Indian and Mexican lands.
		The generation of the First World War was not made honorable by Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, by General Pershing and Admiral Dewey.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Zinn/Greatest_Generation.html (1213 words)

	Museletter # 148 / July 2004: Boomers' Last Chance?
		Worse still, discussion of "better" or "worse" generations entails a moral judgment, as though all of the members of a demographic cohort somehow deserve equal praise or blame, when in fact this is never the case.
		The older generation was mostly proud of this transformation, but many youth couldn't help but notice the vapidity and emptiness of the corporate-sponsored theme-park way of life and had the free time to indulge in irony and sarcasm.
		Just as Brokaw's "greatest generation" had started out in the 1930s battling the evils of unrestrained capitalism and went on in the 1940s to fight the menace of fascism only to end by electing Nixon, Reagan, and Bush and supporting the Vietnam war, we were now doing something similar.
	www.museletter.com /archive/148.html (4091 words)

	SeniorNet Conversation with Tom Brokaw
		Some of the big differences between the World War I generation and the World War II generation are the absence, in the World War I generation, of the active place of women and the unresolved coming to grips with the place of race in our lives.
		The World War II generation -- you take the long arc of their lives, from the deprivation of the Depression, the sacrifices during the war, and then the expansion of civil liberties and social rights like Medicare, for example, and the expansion of Social Security benefits, the Civil Rights bill.
		So, I have discovered that many members of the Greatest Generation now have their own grave reservations about Vietnam, whereas when it was going on -- at the outset, at the beginning at least -- they were supporting it.
	www.seniornet.org /edu/art/brokaw.shtml (2031 words)

	Can We Ever Repay the Greatest Generation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The eighth generation did a superb job, and we, and the succeeding generations, are grateful.
		The WWII generation accepted the torch of freedom handed to them with love and that torch was protected by the souls of all those who had given their lives and from previous generations of Americans who gave their sons, daughters, fathers, brothers, and husbands to keep America free.
		The Korean War generation; the Vietnam War generation and the Gulf War generation passed the torch of freedom from father to son.
	www.republicanandproud.com /can_we_ever_repay_the_greatest_g.htm (1093 words)

	yuhas_20050529
		For decades Generation X was trapped between the need to distinguish ourselves from our parents' desire to bring down the American way of life and end America's superiority in the world that some in our generation just lived up to the stereotype.
		Every generation has a moment in time that defines them: the World War II (The Greatest Generation) was defined by Pearl Harbor and WWII after saving the planet from the ravages of Nazism and the quest for empire by Japan.
		And, Generation X will always be associated with September 11, 2001 when Islamic fundamentalists used aircraft as missiles to destroy building and lives at the World Trade Center complex in New York, the Pentagon in Virginia and in a single aircraft in a field in Pennsylvania.
	www.steveyuhas.com /columns/yuhas_20050529.htm (888 words)

	Radio America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bringing you the legends and legacy of World War II, The Greatest Generation is dedicated to the sounds and events of the Second World War.
		The show is hosted by General J. Milnor Roberts, President of High Frontier and Legislative Director of the Space Transportation Association, President of the National Historical Intelligence Museum, and Chairman of the Eisenhower Society.
		General Roberts is a direct descendant of one of General George Washington's commanders at Valley Forge, Colonel George Gibson, who lost his life in the campaign for the Northwest Territories in 1791.
	www.radioamerica.org /Program2003/greatestgeneration.htm (297 words)

	Remembering duty, honor, country - - MSNBC.com
		It is a generation that, by and large, made no demands of homage from those who followed and prospered economically, politically, and culturally because of its sacrifices.
		It is a generation of towering achievement and modest demeanor, a legacy of their formative years when they were participants in and witness to sacrifices of the highest order.
		They know how many of the best of their generation didn't make it to their early twenties, how many brilliant scientists, teachers, spiritual and business leaders, politicians and artists were lost in the ravages of the greatest war the world has seen.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4999123 (3047 words)

	The Seattle Times: Opinion: A long-overdue tribute to the Greatest Generation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Consequently, although the memorial ostensibly honors the passing generation, the real purpose of the memorial is to remind the rest of us of the debt that we owe them, and to serve as a symbolic guide for future foreign and military policy.
		This accomplishment alone would be enough to earn the title Greatest Generation and our eternal gratitude, given the alternative: Hitler wins the war and his successors dominate the planet to this day.
		Therefore, we cannot truly pay homage to this generation unless we carry on the work that it started: eliminating dictatorships and extremism, spreading democracy and the rule of law, and raising the standard of living of everyone in the world.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/opinion/2001943108_memorial31.html (738 words)

	The Greatest Generation Yet \| New Politics Institute
		This massive generation rivals that of the Baby Boom in size, but could rival the social and political impact of the GI Generation, those known for fighting World War II, building the prosperous post-war American society, and leading the country from JFK through the next six presidents.
		Today’s younger generation seem to have many of the characteristics of that older cohort that came of age in the progressive turbulence of the 1930s and later led the country through the liberal heyday of the post-war boom.
		Every generation has a personality that is formed partly by its reaction to previous generations and by historical influences in its formative stages.
	www.newpolitics.net /node/179?full_report=1 (1421 words)

	The Palmetto Greatest Generation
		The Palmetto Greatest Generation Project was created by Governor Jim Hodges in June 2002 to deliver the lessons and visions of South Carolina's Greatest Generation and all they represent into the classrooms of the schools of South Carolina.
		The Palmetto Greatest Generation Project Council has been working to recruit South Carolina's Greatest Generation era citizens to record their stories and provide firsthand presentations to students.
		World War II changed the face of America, and hopefully the Palmetto Greatest Generation Project will enable students to meet some of the men and women who sacrificed their lives for the sake of freedom.
	www.palmettogreatestgeneration.org /about.html (963 words)

	Neff on the "greatest generation" and World War II
		Neff on the "greatest generation" and World War II Back to Strakon on the World War II time-warp.
		And of course, when one speaks of an entire generation, one must — especially in an age of such collectivism as our own — acknowledge that there were many who were exceptions to the generalizations, both for good and for evil.
		But the saddest thing of all about "the greatest generation" is that not one of their number has risen to reject the accolade.
	www.thornwalker.com /ditch/neffcomments.htm (796 words)

	Salon.com Books \| Talkin' bout my generation
		A new book argues that the baby boomers were a "greater generation" than the one that beat the Depression and Hitler.
		Complaints that the current generation is inferior to the preceding one are probably as old as human history.
		The ancient Greeks were given to lamenting the loss of their fathers' manly virtues; the Romans were forever looking back to a Golden Age of heroic simplicity; the Renaissance was driven by a desire to recapture the lost greatness of the ancient world.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2006/02/03/steinhorn (344 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Tom Brokaw - The Greatest Generation at Epinions.com
		While "Duty, Honor, Country" were, according to Brokaw's book the hallmarks of "The Greatest Generation", the hallmarks of their children have been said to be "Drugs, Sex, and Rock 'N Roll." The problem with this analysis is that it is both simplistic and superficial.
		Yet to say that this was the greatest generation may in fact be overstating a wish and expressing a memorial to parents more than an accurate description of reality.
		Under the spoilage of the Greatest Generation, their children saw those values in many ways simply put on the back burner, or put to sleep, as the postwar economy fueled materialism and pleasure-seeking as never before.
	www.epinions.com /content_40761986692 (1418 words)

	Catholicism and the Greatest Generation
		Today, it is virtually impossible not to have one’s sensibilities assaulted while simply driving to work: if it’s not the commentary of radio talk-show hosts that offends, or the lyrics of pop music, it’s a highway billboard or the bumper sticker in front of you that comes on like gang-busters.
		The "greatest generation" had so much to teach, and it is not their failure that much of what they bequeathed has been lost.
		The "greatest generation" paid its dues and it passed the baton to the rest of us.
	www.catholicleague.org /research/greatest_generation.htm (1257 words)

	Boomers toss gauntlet to 'Greatest Generation' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The generation born between 1901 and 1924, those who scraped by during the Depression, fought World War II and tended victory gardens at home, the folks who toiled for the country's largest economic boom now find themselves in the golden years with a new reason to put up their dukes.
		It's the "Greatest Generation" vs. their offspring, the baby boomers, birthed between the years 1946 and 1964.
		His book, not an attack on the Greatest Generation so much as a defense of his own, attempts to dispel the myth of the boomers as SUV-piloting materialists, drunk on half-caf lattes and their own wealth.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/arizonaliving/articles/0322respect0322.html (673 words)

	Boomers: The Real Greatest Generation
		The first of this whiny, entitled generation are turning 60 this year, and they'll be demanding even more special treatment in old age than they've gotten the rest of their lives.
		Greatest Generation fls who fought Hitler were forced to sit behind German POWs at USO concerts, and when they returned home the new suburban neighborhoods -- emblems of the American Dream -- were closed to them.
		Even in the 1990s, polls showed Greatest Generation majorities continuing to resist racial intermarriage, working mothers and laws to protect gays from discrimination.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/17/AR2006021702491.html (974 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - The Greatest Generation
		The Greatest Generation was united not only by a common purpose, but also by common values -- duty, honor, economy, courage, service, love of family and country, and, above all, responsibility for oneself.
		The Greatest Generation is the story of how these remarkable Americans persevered through war, and were trained by it, and then went on to create interesting and useful lives and the country we have today.
		Through The Greatest Generation, millions of readers have already relived the stories of ordinary men and women, military heroes, famous people of great achievement, and community leaders and learned how these extraordinary times forged the values and provided the training that made a people and a nation great.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=52079148&srchTerms=0385334621&mediaType=1&srchType=ISBN (442 words)

	Greatest Generation Redux
		For a while now we have pondered the late-in-coming celebration of “the greatest generation.” “Late-in-coming” because the baby boomers of the 1960s’; “youth movement” proudly asserted that they were the greatest generation ever to grace the land of America.
		The horrors of war are not just a subject for a term paper to a generation that sent its finest young men to fight at Omaha Beach.” Reagan knew all along which was the greatest generation, even if network anchormen didn’t know it until a publishing house came along with visions of fat royalties.
		The celebration of the greatest generation represents the foreclosure of the “generation gap” of the 1960s and 1970s.
	www.pacificresearch.org /pub/cap/2001/01-10-11.html (477 words)

	America's Greatest Generation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		She simply said "Auschwitz." Many of later generations would have loudly and openly berated the young medic in his many attempts.
		I see later generations that seem to be totally engrossed in abusing these same liberties, won with such sacrifice.
		My experiences have solidified my belief that we are losing an incredible generation, and this nation knows not what it is losing.
	usaattacked.com /america's_greatest_generation.htm (935 words)

	JEWSWEEK - The greatest generation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Tom Brokaw's 1999 book, "The Greatest Generation Speaks," describes the American men and women who weathered the economic Depression of the 1930s and then joined with allied armies to defeat Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and militaristic Japan in World War II.
		The "Greatest Generation" was a reluctant dragon; at first it wanted only to continue its peaceful civilian life by establishing families and achieving economic security.
		About 3,300 years ago there was another "Greatest Generation" that also gained immortality: the 600,000 Israelite slaves of biblical times who reluctantly fled Egyptian bondage and then, despite their initial lack of enthusiasm, received God's Torah, the divine commandments, at Mount Sinai.
	www.jewsweek.com /bin/en.jsp?enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article^l371&enZone=Opinions&enVersion=0& (838 words)

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