Quote Originally Posted by Perry Hilbert Jr View Post
The young ones of today would never even have tried.
Quote Originally Posted by Nicholas Lawrence View Post
Mr. Hilbert, you should think before posting something like that. Plenty of young men today would and have demonstrated their personal courage on a hundred battlefields around the world.

You may not read about them the same way you read about the men who landed on Omaha Beach, but that is a reflection of current politics, not a reflection on those who have served under fire over the last two decades.
Right on, Nicholas.
Heroism lives in every generation, country, ethnic group, religion, gender and so on.
The D-Day anniversary is a day to remember a certain special group of heroes.
But heroism is all around us all the time and as others have pointed out, every generation of military, including the current one, deserves the gratitude and respect of all.