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Originally Posted by sammyg2
People were allot tougher then, that's why we call them the greatest generation.
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People are still tough. They're out there every day working hard and making their living. I think we don't see them because people like that don't always like attention. They have too much work to do and aren't on the Internet asking why their 911 won't start. (Not meant as a jab to anyone.) Some of my smartest, toughest life-long friends are quiet types. No Facebook, no car forums, just working and living their lives and not seeking attention.
People like the farm kid lived in tougher times, that's for sure. The Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, WWII. You had to be tough to get by but there were a lot of candy-asses too. Maybe it's that we used to celebrate toughness of this kind (in the media) and now we celebrate candy-asses like the Kardashians and celebrities in general.
One comment about the Greatest Generation. Everyone served. There were no draft-dodging loopholes that the rich kids and senators' sons ducked through. The draft tended to catch everyone back in the WWII days. Sure, there were ways to get easy duty if you were well-connected but you still had to go in and wear the uniform. Today, wearing a uniform is only cool if someone else does it. We prefer yellow magnetic ribbons to actually serving. Today we wouldn't dare ask the children of the elite to pull their weight by serving in uniform, that's what poor and working class kids are for.
Pardon my PARFiness.