Neil Peart
07-02-2008, 05:09 PM
http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/HughHewitt/2008/07/02/a_salute_to_the_defenders_of_our_freedom
The “Greatest Generation” deserved and continues to deserve the highest honors our country can bestow on it. When the country was attacked, the men and women of 1941 thronged forward to meet the threat and defeat the Axis.
Since the close of WWII the country’s appreciation of its military has risen and fallen and risen yet again—an apparent bouncing ball of approval that often seems to be linked to the question: “What have you done for me lately?”
The “Greatest Generation” deserved and continues to deserve the highest honors our country can bestow on it. When the country was attacked, the men and women of 1941 thronged forward to meet the threat and defeat the Axis.
Since the close of WWII the country’s appreciation of its military has risen and fallen and risen yet again—an apparent bouncing ball of approval that often seems to be linked to the question: “What have you done for me lately?”