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Title: Why 'The Greatest Generation'?
Source: str
URL Source: http://www.strike-the-root.com/node/25930
Published: Jan 24, 2010
Author: Robert L. Johnson
Post Date: 2010-01-24 20:57:55 by abraxas
Keywords: None
Views: 608
Comments: 31

Why 'The Greatest Generation'?

Column by Robert L. Johnson, posted on January 12, 2010

Tom Brokaw coined the phrase “the Greatest Generation” for those Americans who lived through the Great Depression of the 1930s and who went on to fight, kill and die in World War II. You have to ask yourself why a key spokesman for the established government-friendly (to say the least) mainstream media would hold these Americans in such high regard.

Since Brokaw is a solid part of the establishment, he and others like him have a deeply vested interest in maintaining the status quo, just as the government does. As America and the world continue to sink into what some people are calling the beginnings of the Greatest Depression, what better example to hold up for people to follow than a generation who suffered severe poverty and lack of food, clothing, medicine and shelter in silence during the last major economic upheaval in the 1930s, and who then blindly believed and obeyed the government by unquestioningly marching off to an unnecessary war in 1941?

The average American does seem to be too naïve, especially in the 1930s. For example, when World War I veterans were suffering with their families in 1932 due to the economic depression, they formed a virtual army of 17,000 veterans and approximately 26,000 of their family members, the Bonus Army. Their purpose was to petition Congress and President Hoover to allow them early redemption of their Service Certificates they received for their service to the government in “the war to end all wars,” WW I. They were encouraged in their purpose by retired U.S.M.C. General Smedley Butler, who is the author of the eye-opening book, War Is a Racket.

The veterans set up a camp near Congress. However, Hoover ordered the police to clear the veterans and their impoverished families from their camps. The veterans resisted and several of them were gunned down by the police, but the veterans and their camps remained. The next day Hoover ordered the U.S. Army under General MacArthur to clear the American veterans from Washington, D.C. When the veterans saw the U.S. troops, they started to cheer, thinking they were there to honor them! However, they were deadly wrong. The troops attacked the veterans and their families, killing some and evicting all of them. After this display of brutal armed force and violence by the government, there was not much serious resistance to it.

Instead of suffering in silence as “the Greatest Generation” did, they should have “abolished” the government as called for by the Declaration of Independence. If they had done that, there could have been a community free of the misery that was the Great Depression, and World War II may never have happened.

Today, as we find ourselves in similar circumstances with the first stages of the Greatest Depression and the government starting wars halfway around the world, we need to ask ourselves what, if anything, are we are going to do. Are we going to follow the example of our parents and grandparents, of “the Greatest Generation” and suffer along with our loved ones in humiliating silence? Will young people look to serving the government’s war machine as a way out of unemployment and poverty, thus strengthening the cause of our problems, just as “the Greatest Generation” did? Will soldiers and Marines follow the soulless and disgusting example of their predecessors who attacked and fired on the helpless military veterans and their families of the Bonus Army? We have a lot of very important questions that must be answered sooner than we think.

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#5. To: abraxas (#0)

Will young people look to serving the government’s war machine as a way out of unemployment and poverty, thus strengthening the cause of our problems, just as “the Greatest Generation” did?

There was this odd legislation of a peacetime DRAFT that "encouraged" us to serve the government.

Another factor ignored by the author, most of us were of the lowest class, had very little before the depression, so there was not far for us to fall.

Cynicom  posted on  2010-01-24   22:24:50 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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Another factor ignored by the author, most of us were of the lowest class, had very little before the depression, so there was not far for us to fall.

That's a good point, Cyni. But, what about all the excess of the 1920's? Many people were playing in the stock market for the first time, hanging out in Speak Easy's and dressing in fancy attire.......at least in the big cities. Then, like now, there was a push of easy credit to lure in the "lower class" to keep those bankers fat and happy.

I see many parallels. Of course, this generation has no idea how to even sew a button on a shirt, let alone darn a sock or grow any food.

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#11. To: abraxas (#9)

But, what about all the excess of the 1920's?

That was by the few, the MANY was the unwashed masses.

Poverty at the time was described in one word, "HUNGER". If you have never known endless, grinding poverty, no one can describe it for you.

It did not bring out the best in Americans, the haves as a social unit shared nothing, that is why the roots of socialism found fertile ground with Roosevelt.

People often say what they would do etc etc, or they would not be found in such a situation, however reality is a stern task master and when hunger walks beside you year after year, you learn, and learn well about mankind.

Stealing, taking by force etc was never an option, never thought of, never done, you tightened your belt (if you had one) and kept slogging along.

That is why it was the greatest generation in my eyes, we did not take up arms, burn cities, rob, pillage and loot, we did not.

You know what will happen here, soon, when people go hungry, you know.

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Eric Stratton  posted on  2010-01-24   22:48:43 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: Eric Stratton (#16)

But as you say, IMO that will be limited to the inner metro areas for the most part. You know the drill.

There are some huge differences now vs the 1930s.

Now there is mobility even for the masses, something we did not have. Two, the PC and civil rights forces have emboldened the minorities to take what they want, encouraged it.

Take New York city for instance. At any one time there is at the maximum eleven days of food supplies on hand. Stop inbound shipments and you have nine million people en masse leaving the city west bound, foraging as they go like locusts.

That is just one city.

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#24. To: Eric Stratton (#21)

Few will leave.

Not to worry, our government will do that for us.

Several years ago I attended a planning forum where they were discussing the "possible" evacuation of New york City in case of a national crisis.

The county where I live was to receive 100,000 inner city "victims" as our share.

Our county population is about 50,000. The question was raised of course as to how the "victims" were to be housed and fed. The answer was, "that would be left for local government to decide".

There are many scenarios possible, none bode well for anyone.

Cynicom  posted on  2010-01-24   23:18:28 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#28. To: Eric Stratton (#26)

Again, it's a logistical impossibility.

Contingency planning by the government would shock you.

It is not all bad nor all impossible.

You recall the Ollie North hearing and the question Congressman Brooks posed????

Just the tip of the contingency iceberg.

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