Originally Posted by
Dave Anderson NH
My point Al was that those from WWII, the Greatest Generation, sent us off to war, crippled our ability to fight that war, and then ignored us or blamed us when it was lost. I remember going into a VFW post for a beer after I got out of the service and being made to feel very very unwelcome. There was a lot of verbal abuse and it was 45 years before I ever again had anything to do with any veteran's organization. That war was chosen, run, and mismanaged by the supposed greatest generation (no caps intentional).