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The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections
by Tom Brokaw | History | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0375503943 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0375503943 Global Overview for this book
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picked up this nice-quality hardcover at the Pleasanton Libray sale today!
I admire Tom Brokaw as well as the "greatest generation".
I admire Tom Brokaw as well as the "greatest generation".
Tom Brokaw's follow-up to his wonderful (stronger IMHO) The Greatest Generation. The letters and reflections he received from members of this generation, esp during wartime, and their families are moving and thought-provoking.
"There was never a time in American life when so many people were involved in so many ways in a shared cause. It was impossible not to be affected in some fashion by the war effort, however far you may have been from the front lines."
- this sense of shared sacrifice represents to me a huge contrast with our current generation - our unclear wars with just a small group bearing the costs..
I loved the story of the Texan who 50 years ago at Iwo Jima, obtained a letter written by a killed Japanese soldier to his wife . 50 years later, the former US soldier had the letter translated by a woman in Hawaii who took on the job of finding the widow. The Japanese widow wrote a beautiful, long letter to the US soldier and the translator:
"....Though Mr. William Bilderback does not understand Japanese, he kept the letter entrusted to him during the Second World War over 50 years ago. I truly feel that this letter reminds us that all the people living on the Earth can be united as one, despite the conflicts we have endured through history....I was flooded with a thousand emotions and tears....
Timeless reminders...
"There was never a time in American life when so many people were involved in so many ways in a shared cause. It was impossible not to be affected in some fashion by the war effort, however far you may have been from the front lines."
- this sense of shared sacrifice represents to me a huge contrast with our current generation - our unclear wars with just a small group bearing the costs..
I loved the story of the Texan who 50 years ago at Iwo Jima, obtained a letter written by a killed Japanese soldier to his wife . 50 years later, the former US soldier had the letter translated by a woman in Hawaii who took on the job of finding the widow. The Japanese widow wrote a beautiful, long letter to the US soldier and the translator:
"....Though Mr. William Bilderback does not understand Japanese, he kept the letter entrusted to him during the Second World War over 50 years ago. I truly feel that this letter reminds us that all the people living on the Earth can be united as one, despite the conflicts we have endured through history....I was flooded with a thousand emotions and tears....
Timeless reminders...
