Are we losing touch?

[LogGrad98]

Found this interesting bit of news. It made me wonder if the newer generations, even the baby boomers have lost touch with the world wars. I know my kids study about them in school and I talk to them about it as I have a degree in German and studied primarily the Germany of the late 1800s though modern day, so I help them fill in the gaps. But by and large are we losing touch with those wars and what they meant to America? Does the newer generation understand how they affected us in so many ways such as public policy, technology, monetary policy and stock markets, women's rights, and agriculture?

https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110228/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_last_wwi_veteran

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Frank Buckles enlisted for World War I at 16 after lying about his age. He made it home again and ultimately became that war's last surviving U.S. veteran, campaigning for greater recognition for his comrades-in-arms before dying at 110.
Buckles, who also survived being a civilian POW in the Philippines in World War II, died of natural causes Sunday at his home in Charles Town, biographer and family spokesman David DeJonge said. He was 110.

 

[bigb]

Wow, the stories that guy would have been able to tell.

 

[Marty McFly]

I will have a degree in German in May. Positive repped.

 

[UB]

I will have a degree in German in May. Positive repped.

Das ist gud, mein broheim.

 

[franklin]

I lost touch for a couple of months when I cut my finger almost all the way off. I'm happily back to full touching right now. Can we talk about taste next?

 

[Scat]

I lost touch for a couple of months when I cut my finger almost all the way off. I'm happily back to full touching right now. Can we talk about taste next?

Your lack of it?

 

[PearlWatson]

Can we talk about taste next?

Isn't that what the candy bar poll is all about?

 

[moevillini]

since we're speaking of German and education, I always thought it was odd that this was the photo that always appeared in the facebook advertisement promoting a career in nursing....

though I haven't seen that ad in a while

 

[Scat]

since we're speaking of German and education, I always thought it was odd that this was the photo that always appeared in the facebook advertisement promoting a career in nursing....

though I haven't seen that ad in a while

I love this pic. The blonde on the end is in my rotation.

 

[moevillini]

but seriously, I agree Log, it's sad in a way, but also to be expected as time marches on, there's more history that's taken place in the meantime, plus our perspective changes


on the news this morning they referred to him as the last dough boy - - I'm sure most younger folk immediately thought of that pasty white fellow of Pillsbury's

 

[UB]

since we're speaking of German and education, I always thought it was odd that this was the photo that always appeared in the facebook advertisement promoting a career in nursing....

though I haven't seen that ad in a while

Hands down the best SFW pic on the innernet.

 

[Jean-Luc]

now I totally want to find a better SFW pic and show it to you...

 

[UB]

Seriously, it's like a pillow made of drippy caramel and marshmellows and thick, rich cream and a decent amount of nutmeg and/or cinammon. OH GOD I COULD TOTALLY GO FOR A STARBUCKS FROM HER.

 

[DutchJazzer]

over here in netherland people are defintly losing touch.

as the netherlands in world war 2 had the only database in europe which stated religion in it. so when the germans game it was easy to find all the jews. they learned from that mistake atleast for a couple of years. but lately they want to do the exact same thing building fingerprint databases even talk of dna databases. so if(or i should say when) the next hitler arrives the database can be handed over again.


just imagine what hitler could have done with a dna database. even blue eyed blond people with a tiny negro gene would have been exterminated.

so in a way yes people are losing touch. me on the other am not losing touch. family members disapeared during world war and heard stories from survivors for as long as i can remember.

 

[DutchJazzer]

also dont know how you guys on current events in netherlnads are. but have you guys heard of a Geert wilders?

he is early similar to hitller. well except he seems to hate muslims and other (dark skinned)imigrants. and everything that goes wrong in this country he blames it on them
just like htiler blamed teh bad economy on the jews.

it is just scary that that guy even gets votes

 

[UB]

Sounds like a scary dude, and one to keep an eye on in the polders.

 

[Gameface]

also dont know how you guys on current events in netherlnads are. but have you guys heard of a Geert wilders?

he is early similar to hitller. well except he seems to hate muslims and other (dark skinned)imigrants. and everything that goes wrong in this country he blames it on them
just like htiler blamed teh bad economy on the jews.

it is just scary that that guy even gets votes

Haven't heard of that guy. We have people spewing the same sentiments here, only it's illegal Mexicans that cause all the problems.

 

[franklin]

Your lack of it?

I'm sure you meant class, and possibly mental aptitude as well. My taste is actually quite refined. Then again, I rep often enough it's probably refined the wrong way.

 

[Scat]

I'm sure you meant class, and possibly mental aptitude as well. My taste is actually quite refined. Then again, I rep often enough it's probably refined the wrong way.

I did mean class but with that said I don't know you well enough to say whether your taste is well refined or not. It was just too good of a set up by you to pass on.

In fact, I'll give you some pos rep just to say I'm sorry.

 

[Boondocksaint27]

I agree Log, there is a reason that we call the WWII era survivors "The Greatest Generation". I have been doing a lot of reading lately, mostly A Time for Trumpets which is the most complete source (I feel) on the Battle of the Bulge and the events leading up to it. It's quite an amazing story and there are so many heroic stands on the Allied side that it becomes a page turner. Most of these stands outside of St. Vith and Marnach Belgium, I never would have known about had I not read the book. I also watched a biography of the Band of Brothers men of Easy Company. You listen to one of them (I think it was Babe Heffron) telling stories about how people in their hometown committed suicide because they could not serve in the war.

Kind of rambling here, but I guess what I'm getting at is there was a different attitude in the Country then as compared to now.