To those who subscribe to the theory that the Greatest Generation is a myth fail to recognize that this generation faced the GreatDepression and judging by their generous behavior as exhibited in movie, song and commentary did so with surprisingly more courage and class than do the present whinning generations of today. To those who subscribe to the theory that the Greatest Generation had no choice but to........negates the true greatest of these people who were facing " a world at war" and either is not aware or ignores the fact that America was not prepared for a world war and but for many leaders in the business community who had the insight and courage to turn from making butter to making guns( because we were not prepared and lacking greatly in ships airplanes tanks ammunitions, etc)had they not we all would be speaking Nazi-isms today. And Truman's decision to use the A-bomb had to be one of the most difficult in the history of this country. Apparently the true greatness of this generation is fading with the passage of time....but then we have as some believe the courage of Obama that is showing us how to lead from behind and if things go wrong blame others. To compare the greatness of Obama to leaders such as Truman, Eisenhower, etc is to compare pure poetry to bupkus.

Yes there are some extrordinry examples of courage and class by members of our military but make no mistake it doesn't not translated to the President & Chief, Congress,many in the business community and forgetself absorbed Hollywood . Iopine other decide