"The Weakest Generation"

When reading Tom Brokaw’s “The Greatest Generation,” remember that in all likelihood that generation wouldn’t have been so great if they had the incessant chirping of the “Chicken Little” media, yelling ‘The Sky is Falling’ in their collective ears 24/7.

Maybe I can use this Blog as the treatise for a book that I can have published in 15 years:

After almost 15 years and hundreds of letters and interviews, the author wrote “The Weakest Generation”, a representative cross-section of the stories he came across. However, this collection is more than a mere chronicle of a tumultuous time, it's history made personal by a cast of everyday people who whined and complained in the face of extraordinary circumstances: individuals who put political correctness above national security, infantrymen who were disparaged at the highest levels of government, Hollywood power brokers who put their undereducated narrow-minded opinions and hatred of government front and center, middle aged hippies who looked at this time as a way to relive their long faded youth the way executives drop $3,000 at a Fantasy Baseball camp, to a media more interested in sound bites, ratings and revenue than upholding the public trust there are given. From the reminiscences of Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan to the astonishing cowardice and revolting stories of political action groups whose sole purpose was to seek political gain, The Weakest Generation denigrates those who sacrificed nothing and grumbled their way through the course of American history.

Before I am accused of being a conservative cool aid drinker, I must clarify a few things. I do agree with those who put forth a nebulous idea that ALL Americans should have to sacrifice. Unfortunately, the only suggestions that I have heard are generally tied to increasing taxes. I am not sure how raising taxes on the top 1% makes all Americans sacrifice.

I do think that sense of shared sacrifice I see when watching newsreel footage of rubber drives, paper drives, etc. is something missing from our current American consciousness. Again, I am not sure what measures would best reflect this in modern America. President Bush mentioned steps individuals could take to help during his 2005 State of the Union address, but that was the first and last time I have heard it mentioned. Just for sake of clarity, the site is http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/ which took me 20 minutes to find.

Unfortunately, I find myself as a member of “The Weakest Generation.” I have little recourse than to vote, vent my feelings on this Blog, and hope that eventually the collective wisdom of my fellow citizens, and the media lemmings that shape their thoughts, will wake up and realize, someone will be writing about us in 40 years. If the past 4 years have been any indication, we have not done a less than an admirable job representing ourselves. Is it wrong to say I am embarrassed of my generation?

No!

This is America, I can say whatever I want to!