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[BaronOfHair]

They did pat themselves pretty hard on the back for doing what our revolutionary, civil war, first Great War , and other predecessors did, it is an interesting point.

To be fair, it was Tom Brokaw and a handful of pundits who fell out of the womb with oak trees lodged intractably in their rectums who dubbed these folks TGG, not WWII veterans themselves. And in one sense, those vets were extremely fortunate: They were among the few in human history to participate in a conflict which, on the surface, had all the trappings of a Tolkien-esque clash between good and evil

Most wars before and since lack that sort of PR

 

[eli77]

To be fair, it was Tom Brokaw and a handful of pundits who fell out of the womb with oak trees lodged intractably in their rectums who dubbed these folks TGG, not WWII veterans themselves. And in one sense, those vets were extremely fortunate: They were among the few in human history to participate in a conflict which, on the surface, had all the trappings of a Tolkien-esque clash between good and evil

Most wars before and since lack that sort of PR

Winning!

 

[BaronOfHair]

Winning!

Don't misunderstand: I admire many folks who lived during that era. The record demonstrates that they were no less flawed and f-cked up than anyone who before or since though https://www.npr.org/2013/06/17/192882612/wwii-deserters-stories-of-men-who-left-the-front-lines

And the vast majority of them DID NOT go toe to toe with Nazis on the shores of Normandy, or tangle with the forces of Hirohito in the jungles of Burma. Same way the vast majority of the enlisted in every war since WWII didn't/still don't go into combat

 

[Travel memoir21]

 

[eli77]

but also its easier to get a new job .Remote gig and other as well.