![]() ![]() Of course, we all know they weren’t perfect (insert obligatory nod here to Jim Crow and Japanese internment camps). ![]() In line with this hagiographic blueprint, discussions of World War II veterans are mostly nostalgic and congratulatory. At a time in their lives when their days and nights should have been filled with innocent adventure, love, and the lessons of the workaday world, they were fighting, often hand to hand, in the most primitive conditions possible… They faced great odds and a late start, but they did not protest. They answered the call to help save the world from the two most powerful and ruthless military machines ever assembled, instruments of conquest in the hands of fascist maniacs. Brokaw saw this cohort in valedictory, heroic terms. Tom Brokaw popularized the term “The Greatest Generation” in 1998 to describe the Americans-and especially the American men-who survived the Depression and fought against Nazism in World War II. ![]()
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