Quote Originally Posted by Times Roman View Post
that's the difference between the generations. This generation actually believes 9/11 is a war which is a pitiful joke, compared to other "true" wars. We lost some 3,000+ during 911. Now compare that to the wars of the prior generations.... There were 1.7 million dead by the end of WW1. WW2 saw somewhere between 50 and 70 million dead. The Korean war between 2 and 3 million dead. Vietnam 1.5 and 2 million dead. So comparatively, 911 is less than 1% of any of the previous wars. Doesn't even come close anything I would call a war. It's more like a terrorist incident. I don't give a crap what the media and the politicians say. This war is what it is because we no longer have the boogey men from the cold war to be afraid of. Plain and simple.

The wars of the past were horrific. People going off to war were likely to come home in body bags.

So to surmise, this generation has seen NOTHING compared to the wars of the earlier generations. Not even close mate.
i completely agree with you. But i don't think because a war went on when you were alive or a terrorist attack entitles you to anything. It may have been a harder time to live but that doesnt mean you earned something more imo