![]() ![]() They didn’t come home to saturate the pubic with stories of American atrocities against the enemy. The veterans who had seen war understood both the cost of war and the price of peace. It was the Greatest Generation that built and controlled the great media empires of their time. The Greatest Generation is also so-titled because of the tenderness with which it is treated by the media. The Greatest Generation was the generation that, having endured all that they endured at the hands of a determined, sadistic and vicious enemy, left their bitterness on the battlefield and built a world in which most of their children lived out their lives having never heard a shot fired in anger. It strains the limits of the imagination to contemplate what it must have been like to be one of the men climbing up the sheer faces of the cliffs at Normandy as enemy forces shot them down from above.Īnd having survived, imagine the prospect of facing perhaps YEARS more of the same, liberating the whole of Europe, one town at a time. Playing it, one wonders how ANY of the flesh and blood heroes it simulates ever actually made it to the seawall alive. (Ambrose oversaw the historical accuracy of the simulation) The late Stephen Ambrose and WWII historian (and veteran) helped design a computer game called Medal of Honor that simulates the journey from the landing craft to the seawall at Normandy from a first person perspective. ![]() ![]() It is hard to imagine the hardships endured by the men who landed on the Normandy beacheads. (This was famously illustrated by the hysterically funny Peter Sellers in the 1960’s movie, “The Mouse that Roared.”) For the first time in the history of war, (but not the last) nations vanquished by the Greatest Generation could count on emerging from the conflict better off than they were when the entered it. The Axis’ goal was world domination, and they raped every country that they conquered.īut when they were conquered in turn by the Greatest Generation, the victors turned the spoils back over to the vanquished. Throughout the history of warfare, the principle ‘to the victor go the spoils’ generally described the purpose of warfare in the first place. Those who fought World War Two aren’t known as the Greatest Generation just because they endured the challenges of war, although that by itself would qualify its members for the title. ![]() The memorial honoring what is now officially known as ‘the Greatest Generation’ was, fittingly enough, timed to open for this year’s Memorial Day. ![]()
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