The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.
Obviously, the World War II guys, that's where we, we learned everything from those guys. And then we hopefully, what we learned, we pass down to the newer generation.
World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.
My generation has left the globe in a mess.
My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.
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.
My generation was the tail end of the Cold War.
The end of the First World War had thrown Germany's youth into great turmoil. The reins of power had fallen from the hands of a deeply disillusioned older generation, and the younger ones drew together in larger and smaller groups to blaze new paths or, at least, to discover a new star to steer by.