A Less-than-original-thought Wrapped in a Borrowed Cliche

[thisnewday]

With my father's passing, there exists one less voice to articulate the lives and hopes of what others have called "The Greatest Generation."

LPK
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1.1.2010 (a)

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just wondering

[swamp-rose.livejournal.com]

why "they" call it the "greatest generation" that implies no other generation can hope to strive for greatness. Sad, really. When I think of MY parents' "voices" over the years, I wish I had the rudeness and conversely self-respect to tell them they knew not of what they spoke. Thinking of two sets of in-laws, I would listen to some and, for the sake of harmony, ignore the rest.

Why does it seem that the generations coming after the "greatest" seem to have basically given up? I encounter so much apathy (while battling with my own!) that it's depressing.

So I suppose I should take a pill? and then another?