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3 days ago · Tom Brokaw famously called these men and their generational peers “The Greatest Generation.”
2 days ago · army veteran dennis schnee, among the oldest living survivors of world war two. he was 22 when he went in part of tom brokaw’s greatest generation, the ones who preserved freedom for the rest of us.
2 days ago · Narrated by Tom Brokaw, D-Day: Normandy 1944 pays tribute to those who gave their lives for our liberty…a duty of memory, a duty of gratitude. June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France.
3 days ago · As dawn was breaking in Europe 80 years ago, members of what journalist Tom Brokaw would call The Greatest Generation boarded landing craft off the coast of France.
2 days ago · “There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes, almost 10,000 ships, boats, landing craft, frigates, sloops, and other special combat vessels—all involved in a surprise attack on the heavily fortified north coast of France, to secure a beachhead in the heart of enemy-held ...
3 days ago · What Tom Brokaw called “the greatest generation” taught us this: it can never be only about rhetoric. It’s not just about words. It’s about action.
2 days ago · Firstly the term itself implies that there were bad wars. The bad war being Vietnam for the Baby Boomers (which we will talk bit more about later) and in the post 9/11 age, Iraq and Afghanistan for us millenials or gen Xers. The wars of the Cold War era ended up in political defeat in Vietnam or stalemate in Korea.
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