Comments on: 7 Lessons in Manliness From the Greatest Generation

By: anthony

anthony — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:32:37 +0000

Awesome its about time I’m so sick of lily livered men these days
Miss my Dad
I try to be like my Dad but that perfection can’t be learned you must be born with it .

By: Howard Manes

Howard Manes — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:30:57 +0000

Nobody should be giving this current generation any credit. They
have email, cell phones, instant communication with their families.
This country has been at this war almost ten years now with no result.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:13:45 +0000

I’ve read garbage before but this really takes the cake. I guess it all started with that fool Brokaw. Oh how lucky we mortals be that in the year 1940 born into this world was a man who could survey 4 million years of human evolution and over 200 thousand generations and was able to pick the one and only Greatest Generation. The fact that you people actually believe this crap is beyond me. I’ve known a lot of people from that generation and there wasn’t anything special about them. As a matter of fact I liked the WW 1 generation better. So does this manly title also apply to my friend’s father, who in a nightly drunken rage would beat his wife and kids mercilessly? Yes, he was a member of your glorious Great Ass Generation. Or perhaps the manly title should go to the two big goons who punched my friend in the face because he had long hair and a beard. He was alone in a diner, all 140 pounds of him, when he was asked to name a great American with long hair and a beard? He said George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. He named two, so the mentally inferior goons having no come back punched him out. There is good and bad in all generations, there is no such thing as a Greatest Generation. That’s like saying there is a greatest race, greatest religion, greatest nationality and so on. It’s a form of bigotry and like all bigotry it will lead to hatred, in this case generational hatred.

By: John

John — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:14:26 +0000

My grandfather was one of the men you describe…although he never carried a weapon or even left his home town during WWII. He worked 70-80 hours a week in the steel mills of Pittsburgh during the war. He never bragged or complained, he just did what needed to be done. And when he passed away in 2003 at the age of 93, he had been married to the same woman for 68 years.

By: Sam Shadman

Sam Shadman — Thu, 13 May 2010 07:24:50 +0000

There certainly is a quality men possessed from that era and these 7 principles seem to sum it up. Because everyone of them remind me of my dad. Born in 1921, he served in the USMC during WWII and the Korean Conflict. He was very patriotic, didn’t care for draft dodgers or the communist that tried to get into the American worker unions after the wars. He worked his whole life and was married to my mom for over 50 years. I wish I was as manly as he was. But you know what?…I can see him… in my son!