As the media reflects on the passing of the Greatest Generation, they should remember that generation was flawed. It allowed segregation &watched Americans kill others trying to exercise their right to vote.Greatness was their ability to change & live up to their professed values
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Flawed, as every generation is flawed: failing to fully correct evils they knew of, and failing to recognize clearly evils their descendants see all too clearly.
As you can tell, I'm ambivalent, as usual, particularly about making moral judgments on the past. We're all stuck with the history we inherit. The best we can expect of anyone, whether individual, generation, or nation, is to do better than their predecessors.
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