The Greatest Generation
by Tom Brokaw · first published 1998
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"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. There, I underwent a life-changing experience. 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. Ten years later, I returned to Normandy for the fiftieth anniversary of t
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…Right, that's just me—a sample of one—and that's statistically insignificant. It seems to me that a better place to begin is with the American journalist Tom Brokaw's wonderfully researched book The Greatest Generation. It tells the stories 'of a generation of America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America' As Brokaw points…
on “Great Barrington Declaration: Epidemiologists say life should resume as normal” ↗…counts for little in the wider scheme of things. If you want a greater authority who has carefully researched the matter then I'd refer you to Tom Brokaw and his excellent book on the subject titled The Greatest Generation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_Generation_(boo... https://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm/book_number/128...
on “The most radioactive spot in New York City can also fix your muffler” ↗"I ponder" Probably not, or it would have been more difficult or taken longer. That generation is exemplified in Tom Brokaw's truly excellent book The Greatest Generation. He covers the lives of people of that generation and shows how they took life as it came and when adversity struck they managed the best they could and did so without complaint. I have an interest in…
on “The Photographer Who Forced the U.S. to Confront Its Child Labor Problem” ↗Actually, that's what makes it better. The argument against Tom Brokaw's Greatest Generation isn't that those WWII heroes were so special; it's that no one generation could be. I could have been more precise with a modifying phrase such as "by accident of birth", but that was too unwieldy.…
on “Persuade xor Discover” ↗