I am a baby boomer, the son of a former artillery captain who landed at Arromanches two days after D-day. The members of the wartime generation, what the US journalist Tom Brokaw called “the Greatest Generation” in his book chronicling their experiences, were unique. Above all, the D-day celebrations signify a shared purpose now lost. The wartime generation were so shaped by what they lived through that they created the institutions that have served us so well. Rather, our purpose lies in rebuilding the values and institutions bequeathed to us by that wartime generation.

Source: The Guardian June 09, 2019 06:01 UTC