Letter writer believes nation has strayed far from Great Generation

Letter writer believes nation has strayed far from Great Generation

Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images) East Bay Times letters to the editor for May 26 Should learn from Greatest
Generation as we celebrate

With Memorial Day, we will be extolling the accomplishments of the Greatest Generation. Let’s look at some of the characteristics of that generation, of which my parents were a part and my father a veteran of both world wars:
It was a time when the South and the military were segregated, when a woman’s place was in the home, gays were in the closet, kids prayed in school and their teachers were largely maiden ladies who didn’t abuse […]

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