Originally Posted by
deltabound
If memory serves (!), there were something like 11 MILLION draftees during WWII. While I'm certainly not denigrating their service AT ALL, I think it adds some much needed perspective to "the Greatest Generation."
Personally, I think the all-volunteer force RIGHT NOW (and for the past decade) is truly the GREATEST GENERATION.
These men and women are signing up knowing they'll likely go into harms way, and no one is compelling them in the least. That's truly "nut-up-or-shut-up" patriotism in action.
The "Greatest Generation" claim was used to describe the citizens of our entire country, not just the armed forces.
From what I understand, the collective response and resolve of ALL Americans was something that we have never seen before or after WWII.
That's all I was sayin'
