What Generation are You

We boomers were also "raised on WWII." A significant percentage of entertainment was WWII related when we were groing up. Movies and TV especially so in the 50's through the 70's.

Maybe so; but my father always played Battleship with me; it was the 10 by 10 grid on paper we drew out;; played for hours and as Weeds noted
   I grew up watching all the TV WW2 shows; Victory AT Sea;  Silent Service, Prudential's 20 th century, so on.
Maybe because he lost his brother at ST LO he was more involved it than others. But till this day I still love History. Give me a book on any era over a Novel any day.

Looks like Generation X is taking command; Thats a good thing; as the Boomers fade away its nice to see there is still
  interest in The Great Generations achievements.

Don't forget Twelve O'Clock High, McHale's Navy, Combat!, Hogan's Heros, The Rat Patrol, and Black Sheep Squadron.

Smack bang in the middle of Gen X at '73.


I would have thought this thread would have been totally irrelevant to anything and probably more a thread for the Lounge, but reading along saw that you were talking about the different Generations take on history, very interesting. A history professor once told me that people's memory of history barely goes back more than a decade or two....scary when you think how removed most of us from the horrors of the Second World War. Scarier still, how removed we are from the memory of the circumstances both political and economical that culminated into the start of that war, many of those same things are beginning to emerge once again.

Economic Turbulence
Poverty
Class Struggle
Racial/Minority Intolerance

Yes its all going on right now, the stage is set, I'm glad my Grandfather is no longer alive to see it all starting to happen again...

Dan

...extreme nationalism
...militarism
...impulsive rulers with their hands at the levers of the controls of nations

It's a fearsome world in which we live!

Dad was with 347th Reg. remember playing with a 37 MM anti tank shell in the hallway closet.
  Guess the old man was lucky he never came across a Panther.