The Greatest Generation.Random House, 1998) Standing on the beaches of Normandy, doing a report for the Today show on the 40th anniversary of D-Day, Tom Brokaw Thomas John Brokaw (born February 6, 1940 in Webster, South Dakota) is a popular American television journalist, Previously working on regularly scheduled news documentaries for the NBC television network, and is the former NBC News anchorman and managing editor of the program says he had a life-changing experience. He came to the sudden and powerful realization that his parents' generation had indeed saved civilization from the brink of disaster and created a world in which it would be safe for their children and grandchildren GRANDCHILDREN, domestic relations. The children of one's children. Sometimes these may claim bequests given in a will to children, though in general they can make no such claim. 6 Co. 16. to grow up and flourish. Brokaw's book a long love letter to the people who came of age during WWII WWII abbr. World War II WWII World War Two , attempts to give a sense of the simple, consistent virtues that characterized this generation. But it was also the generation that sent its children to Vietnam, that fueled McCarthyism, and built the largest arsenal ever known to humanity. Perhaps it would be enough just to say thanks, without actually canonizing anybody. [Merely Mortal mortal /mor·tal/ (mor´t'l) 1. subject to death, or destined to die. 2. fatal. mor·tal adj. 1. Liable or subject to death. 2. ] |
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