re: #296 windsagio

You are still greatly lessening the contributions of say… the people who came home after the Civil War and had to try to rebuild a nation, especially in the South, from ruins. They sat down and got to business, working from nothing and built a successful section of the nation again.

Some poor man from the Tennessee mountains rebuilding his burnt farm is a far more impressive man than the guy coming back from WW2 into the essentially guaranteed (see:Marshall Plan) success and growth of the US after WW2

No. I am not. You are moving goalposts. Civil War versus WWII is like comparing the Peloponnesian War to that of the Greek War of Independence.

And, I really doubt if Viet Nam Vets will ever be called the greatest generation … or anything near that.