With the passing of @Coolwin1776, Kevins Grandmother it got me thinking. Each one of the greatest generation left that passes diminishes us as a country and as people. Each generation of this country that passes into history the knowledge, grit, determination and perseverance through hardships and hard times leaves us as a people. We loose the self sufficiency and knowledge to live on our own and to support ourselves by our own hands, knowledge, hard work and working together as communities. I would even go so far as to say that each generation that we loose we loose exponentially on the ability to survive without the modern infrastructure that we have today.
Yes it is convenient for us but it also makes us weak and dependent on others to live. That is the big flaw and problem in America today. Other less developed countries most of their population can and do still have the knowledge to survive on their own or as a community working together for the common good. Take away our electricity for just a few days and it becomes a huge natural disaster. Just imagine what the terrorists that FJB has let into this country can do if they coordinate and attack us from within. It is a sobering thought.
We are a strong country but we do have our weaknesses and believe me our enemies know it too. What you canât destroy outright or militarily you can do great damage from within with things like our aging critical infrastructure that we and our government take for granted. That is the main speciality of our Green Beret troops. They go in in small numbers to recruit and train militia, soldiers and civilians to train, fight, resist and how to use military equipment aganst an oppressive regime or government.
So what do you guys think and rate us as a country to fight an enemy using an unconventional war from within our country itself? COVID is just a very small taste of what could be released on us at anytime. Some of our enemies may not be advanced as we are militarily but you see what a determined opponent could do if given the right timing and circumstances.
I think our generation is past its ability to achieve greatness. Our children though need to be ready to man up if you will. I think you and I have hopefully done well to teach our children how to see the âEverybody gets a trophyâ game is wrong on the worst level.
I think people forget the millennials fought war from their time of becoming men and women in or around 2002 and those wars continued until they retired 20 years later. Their entire lives for some of them was war. Fought wars for this country honorably and with alacrity. Yeah there was still Gen X in command and NCOs the majority was millennials. They comported themselves well and I am proud of that generation.
In 1900 95% of the population lived on a farm. Now less than 5%. People used to have to know real skills to survive. Hard times forged these people.
I will say this. As long we keep the right to bear arms, we will prevail - we have over 400 million guns.
The majority of us will attack an invading army from all sides. We seem like we just let things slide nowadays. That is because conservatives have something (that they worked hard for all their lives) to lose. Liberals - (in particular the ones in the streets) causing all this BS have nothing to lose. They stand for absolutely nothing, but are against everything.
So the silent majority is carrying them now, and I suppose we will have to carry them through an invasion. We just hope they donât become the new Viet Cong, since they hate America to begin with.
We were pretty much underestimated before World War 2, but we mobilized our country and focused our energy and resources to win decisively on two major fronts on an actual global scale in just 3 years and 9 months from Dec 7, 1941 to Aug 9th 1945. I know Japan didnât sign the papers on the USS Missouri til September, but it was over after Nagasaki.
Totally unlimited conventional warfare is different than that limited responses controlled by politicians. Who by the way suck at just but everything. Do you thing the squad knows anything about the real world? Hell no. Do you think foreign and Commie traitors would have been in Congress in 1940âs? Hell no.
911 was a wakeup call, but now its been all but forgotten. I guarantee that my generation and the one before (Who were truly the Greatest Generation) at least since the revolutionary war never forgot Pearl Harbor.
And yes, the latest generation needs to grow up and get with it. And move out their parents house before they are 47 years old. I have had a pay check job since I was 14. Had my own car at 16. And been out on my own since 18. By the way they taught Civics in H.S. not socialism then. Also I could buy guns, cigarettes and drink alcohol at 16. Not that smoking and drinking are good for you. It was that we treated like adults, and given responsibility so we grew the hell up.
No, Leonard you arenât rambling that is exactly what I was talking about. Traditionally we have always had small town boys and country boys who grew up hunting and fishing and spent a good amount of time in nature and in the woods. We grew up with gardens and lived or worked on farms growing and cultivating the crops. We were exposed to many more life skills than kids are today.
We actually had schools that taught real lessons about real subjects. You learned about earning a real grade and there werenât any participation trophies. Well there were participation trophies to a certain extent if you considered a D or F on your report card when you didnât pay attention or study.
So many kids now cannot actually give you a simple answer to an question that 99% of the world could have answered correctly without any thought, âare you male or female?â
Critical thinking skills? Gone unless you or private schools taught it to your children. Public schools and so many colleges fail utterly in that life critical skill.
Are there really good young men and women in our society today? Yes absolutely there still are. As example our military, if you donât have critical thinking skills going in you will learn pretty quickly thereafter. So many of us have young adult kids that reflect the values that most of the people on this forum have. We taught them growing up like @Rufus said. The big difference is now today I feel that they are the exception in todayâs age instead of the standard that young adults used to be.
I may be jaded to a certain extent by my past experiences in dealing with the public and by the constant dribble on the news. I sincerely hope that @GuitarGuy is right and that when times get hard we still have people with the intestinal fortitude to meet those hard times and persevere.
COVID already told us what the state of the American people is today. I get a chuckle out of people saying âWeâre armedâ⌠and whatnot. No they wonât, theyâre going to fill their pickup bed full of toilet paper and screw everybody else.
Itâs the people with 10,000 rounds of ammo that have never(or rarely) shot a gun that crack me up. If SHTF do they really think theyâll make it that long in a gun fight.
These are the same people with 200 rolls of toilet paper. Apparently theyâve never had to âmake doâ with what was available. Shirt sleeves, shirt tails, socks, leaves, news paper,âŚâŚâŚ
I can remember my great grandmas outhouse having two buckets of corn cobs. One bucket had dark ones, the other had light ones. Wiped with dark and checked with lights. Years later they upgrade to stacks of magazines, catalogs and newspapers. At age 50, Iâm old, but Iâm sure others here are older and can remember such times.
