Tom Brokaw - Generation Quotes

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Women of the World War II generation, who had demonstrated so convincingly that they had so much more to offer beyond their traditional work, were the under-pinning for the liberation of their gender, even as many of their husbands resisted the idea.

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My father, Red Brokaw, was a blue-ribbon member of that fix-it generation. My mother learned not to say aloud what she needed, say a new ironing board, because my father would immediately build her one. She liked to buy something from the store occasionally.

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The World War II generation did what was expected of them. But they never talked about it. It was part of the Code.

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A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

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This is the greatest generation any society has ever produced.

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