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Is the Greatest Generation the greatest?
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<blockquote data-quote="Skeptic" data-source="post: 390755" data-attributes="member: 2175"><p>Before I moved I had lunch about once a month with a WWII B17 pilot, then 90, actually completed 25 missions over Germany, had a couple of planes shot to pieces but never lost a crewman, and viewed it like this: "Anybody who flew through that and came back was just lucky. All you could do was keep that thing straight and hope to come out the other side with 10 live bodies. All you needed to come home was to do it 25 times." He objected to being "the Greatest Generation" and was convinced his grandsons were just as worthy as both his and his kids' generation. Just didn't take that seriously. But when I had occasion to introduce him to a friend it was always as an American hero.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skeptic, post: 390755, member: 2175"] Before I moved I had lunch about once a month with a WWII B17 pilot, then 90, actually completed 25 missions over Germany, had a couple of planes shot to pieces but never lost a crewman, and viewed it like this: "Anybody who flew through that and came back was just lucky. All you could do was keep that thing straight and hope to come out the other side with 10 live bodies. All you needed to come home was to do it 25 times." He objected to being "the Greatest Generation" and was convinced his grandsons were just as worthy as both his and his kids' generation. Just didn't take that seriously. But when I had occasion to introduce him to a friend it was always as an American hero. [/QUOTE]
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