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发帖数: 29846 | 1 This Grandmother Said 6 Words About WHY America WINS…It’s Going VIRAL!
Scott McKay
15 Jan, 2016 by Scott McKay
Here’s a simple example of what’s been lost amid the onslaught of the
politically correct/cultural Marxist worldview on American culture.
A quick anecdote from the Greatest Generation…
The World War II generation, or “The Greatest Generation” as defined
by former NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw, grew up in the Great Depression and
then went on to fight in World War II.
They were great because they endured and prevailed against extremely
difficult times.
Andrew Clark, editor at the Independent Journal Review, recently talked
to his grandmother, who was born in 1928, about living through this tough
time. He was specifically interested in World War II and the public’s
opinion about it.
“When we started fighting World War Two, how confident was everybody
that we were actually going to win?” he asked her.
Her answer represents what many believe America is all about.
“We knew we were going to win because we knew we were the best,” she
told him.
That seems like a little thing, but it really isn’t. Even following an
entire lost decade in which poverty and privation, economic dislocation and
national malaise had wracked the country, sweeping away the fun-loving and
decadent but wildly prosperous 1920’s and infusing America with a profound
sense of loss, and even following the German march through Western Europe
and the Japanese imperial expansion to cover the western half of the Pacific
, there was a confidence among the American people.
And that was at a time when the military prowess of the United States was at
a minimum level. We had less troops under arms and less military hardware
on hand than any of the great powers of the time. We had to gear up for war
before we could fight it.
Still, there was confidence. Why? Because people actually believed in the
American people and the strength of our culture and society.
We believe that’s still true, but it’s a ship covered in barnacles. A bit
of scraping-off of the modern-day America-bashing would do us a lot of good.
Particularly given that 2010’s America looks a little like 1930’s America,
and so does the world. | c*******o
发帖数: 8869 | 2 哪6个字？
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: This Grandmother Said 6 Words About WHY America WINS…It’s Going VIRAL!
: Scott McKay
: 15 Jan, 2016 by Scott McKay
: Here’s a simple example of what’s been lost amid the onslaught of the
: politically correct/cultural Marxist worldview on American culture.
: A quick anecdote from the Greatest Generation…
: The World War II generation, or “The Greatest Generation” as defined
: by former NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw, grew up in the Great Depression and
: then went on to fight in World War II.
: They were great because they endured and prevailed against extremely
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发帖数: 29853 | 3 就那六个字。：)
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: 哪6个字？
| j*********r
发帖数: 24733 | 4 不知所云，pointless，典型的缺乏leadership的表现，从1:50开始看
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: 就那六个字。：)
| s*********r
发帖数: 9493 | 5 we knew we were the best. |
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