They really do a disservice because these men and women came out of the Depression, they came out of the war.
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We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.
When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.
Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.
The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
World War II affected the male population in a very detrimental way. They were happy to be home, happy to be alive, happy they won, but they could not express to anybody the horror they had been through.
That was not what men and women fought for during the war.
From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
After the threat of war is gone, we should not turn our backs on the men and women who eliminated that threat. We should embrace them and keep our promises we made to them.
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