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Summary: Greatest Generation and Family Sacrifices
Review: I found this book to be of immense value as a baby boomer in understanding my parents generation, the sacrifices that were made and the resulting ethics and values that emerged from this world shaking event. As a result of reading it and thinking back to my youth and talking to aunts and uncles (who were all in uniform during the war), a couple of them did not come back from foreign fields of battle. Some became isolationists in outlook and others became confirmed internationalists. One gets a much better appreciation and understanding of the American dream and what the human cost can be when a meglomaniac is allowed to run rampant on the world. Yes, the cost to humanity was immeasurable and unspeakable, however, the ending of the conflict brought about a profound change in political and social systems around the world. Have we done better since V-E and V-J Day's? I would like to think so, having traveled extensively around the world in U.S. military uniform and have seen first hand the impact of America, for better or worse on the world community.
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Summary: America's Youth have Gone Soft
Review: What were you doing when you were 17? Ask that question today and some might tell you ... 'Participating in aschool clubs' or 'Hanging out' ... a whole geneeration was fighting for our freedom ..Thank you .. Your sacrifices were great and we appreciate it.
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Summary: Presumably not the Greatest Generation of Parents
Review: It's very ironic that the supposed greatest generation were not able to instill their sterling qualities in their own children - the much maligned baby boomers. This failure seems to expose a serious deficiency of parenting and mentoring skills.
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Summary: Rare Book
Review: I am only 17, but my Grandfather fought in WWII. A book like this is very rare. As I have learned it's very hard for veterans to talk about their experiences. And, yes, this generation is slipping away from us and to have thier experiences written down for other, future generations to read is wonderful.
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Summary: You Are There
Review: A great book about how much America has changed in a mere 60 years and what we have learned and lost. This is fascinating reading which touches the heart. Better reading than all of those history textbooks we were forced to read in high school.
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Summary: A legacy to our children
Review: I bought this book for my children. I am so thankful that someone told this story. This Greatest Generation is slowly slipping away. I am a baby boomer and my father [their grandfather] was an Italian immigrant. He was very aware of the freedom he enjoyed in this country and was willing to fight against the tyrrany of a very sick dictator! Their other grandfather fought at Pearl Harbor. Their future wives worked hard here at home for the war effort. Both men thankfully survived to go on and help rebuild this country where their families could grow up safely and with more opportunities than they knew. These dear family members have now passed on. I wanted my children to understand what their grandparents endured and to be very proud of the unselfishness of that Greatest Generation. They didn't have state-of-the-art everything, but they had loyalty, integrity, determination and grit that far overshadowed any doubts or fears. Their example of selflessness was an honorable trait. We should all strive to emulate their noble character.
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Summary: Every student should read this
Review: This book is a must read for the generations that followed. The stories show us that we are responsable for our own action and no one else. Here was a generation that came from nothing, fought a horrible war and came home to make our country what it is today. They really were the Greatest Generation. I feel that this book is so inspiring that it should be on every students reading list.
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Summary: A Personal Perspective
Review: My Aunt won a Nobel in 1988 for her work in cancer research and is one of the people featured in this book. Normally this sort of reading is not what I gravitate towards, but when Trudy passed away in February I found myself clinging to whatever of her I could find and walked out of a local bookstore with this book. I read the section on her first and was quite moved by how well it was written. Of course she will always be a different image to me being that she was family - but this professional perspective is short and concise and a good read. A while later I did start reading the rest of the book and have to say it has been enjoyable especially with my busy schedule I can pick this up, plug into a chapter and not be lost if I come back to the book weeks later. It's what we called subway reading in my family!
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Summary: A poignant and moving example of what we have lost
Review: This incredible book made me take a good long look at myself and my generation, known as Generation X. Tom Brokaw's re-introduction of the aptly named "Greatest Generation" to us young people was long overdue. If only the teenagers today could understand what our Grandparents did for all of us. As I have just really found out. I read this book voraciously, and found myself in tears, but could never put it down. As a matter of fact, I felt that twinge of sadness as I found myself at the last page. I am purchasing three more copies to send to my younger cousins. I hope they get as much from it as I did. An incredible book, which will send me into the new millenium with a greater understanding of how America has changed in a mere 60 years.
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Summary: Typical-heart in the right place, head stuck elsewhere...
Review: I would have thought it universal among the baby boomer generation that one day we all would realize that our fathers were better men at 16 than we were at 30. Now that I am 45, I am beginning to see that perhaps my intuition was too broad based. Few of my peers ever really left the embarrassingly immature views espoused during the sixties in the sixties where they belong. Tom Brokaw is absolutely right in characterizing "The Greatest Generation". Had he managed to do so in an objective manner, the book would have weathered it's poor editing more handily. As it is, Brokaw's apparent inability to not project his own politics into a story is as pronounced here as it is on the Clinton Administrations favorite propaganda outlet, the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. Take the good with the bad-there are moments even Brokaw cannot spoil for us. For a more useful look at the "greatest" generation and the true mettle of our nations resolve and courage, I would suggest "Once an Eagle" is a good place to start. Jerry Furland, Author of "Transfer-the end of the beginning..."
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