So today is Memorial Day. This whole obsession with the 'Greatest Generation' is really starting to bug me. Don't forget Brokaw's book either. Sure, you worked hard when times were tough and you 'fought for our country', but that really ain't what it's cracked up to be. WWII took us out of the depression.
War generates profit.
We just swapped the evil Nazi's for the evil Commies. They saved us from totalitarianism, but they sentenced us to 40 years of a cold war. But, By bringing all that up, they refute their own claims. Anyone that talks about their 'glory days' is washed up. Concern yourself with the present, in hopes of the future.