I doubt if most of them would call themselves the greatest American generation, probably deferring to the generation that fought the American Revolution or the generation that fought the Civil War. However, we owe them a lot, and the debt keeps growing:
I’m told, “The Syracuse Honor Flight just knocked down the barrier and a couple hundred of them are at the Memorial now.”
That would be the Iwo Jima Memorial. For why there is an Iwo Jima Memorial, read here.
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Thanks for this post!
News from the – well, you know – is disorderly, and things go unmentioned.
I agree about the debt of which you speak. A debt of gratitude is a welcome form, unlike others, some of which are reported.
What an example of meanness and ignorance for these elderly men to meet.
This is peaceable assembly being denied to men who fought for the freedom to have peaceable assembly. Inhumanity.
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Every time I hear about something not being available because of the “government shutdown” I think to myself, “That wouldn’t happen if it was being run by the private sector.”