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Originally Posted by Purrybonker
IDK, greatest generation? IDK, All Quiet on the Western Front, Slaughterhouse 5...
I don't see anything heroic or memorable in any of this. I am not immune - I am of Germanic descent- my father was RCAF, my step-father was Luftwaffe. Neither of them romanticized war, ever.
What does that mean - greatest generation? The generation that slaughtered millions of themselves, is that cause for celebration?
It's all human slaughter no matter how you label it. Nothing to be memorialized or celebrated or even justified.
Just forget it FFS and move on...
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Wow, you need to read these books that have been mentioned. I would also recommend that you read "Helmet for My Pillow", "With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa", "An Army at Dawn" (or anything by Rick Atkinson), "Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors", "The Mighty Eighth", "Hiroshima" by John Hersey, or so many others. I would also offer you read "The Blond Knight of Germany", for a German (non-Nazi) perspective. Leon Uris's DocuNovels, "Mila 18", and "QB Seven", are excellent fictions based upon the sacrifices of the free men and women that stood against Hitler's Horrors. With the release of the secret records of the Tokyo and Guam war crimes trials (after 50 years) I am sure new facts will be revealed.
None of the legitimate written history of this horrific war that I am familiar with glorified anything, quite the opposite. Also, the Greatest Generation is a term coined by Tom Brokaw so he could sell a book. I don't see the term as applicable to what that generation actually and willingly subjected itself too. And do not confuse those that served to defeat world wide Facists in the same light as those Facists that sought to force their evil on mankind. The "GI" Generation did not glorify war, they hated it.
As far as "Just forget it . . . ", THAT is exactly what not to do!