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Bruce Brown
Thanks for taking the time to take note of what our parent's generation did for us.
My Dad passed away yesterday and as i was tasked with writing his obituary I wrote this to his friends who remain:
My Dad left us this morning to be with his Lord.
I know my Mom welcomed him right after Jesus took hold of his Spirit and delivered it Home.
They are dancing the two step again – after 20 years apart!
I can hear her voice welcoming him – “Hello Darlin’”
While volunteered to write his obituary I gave thought to what his generation faced and came up with this:
We need to remember the lessons learned from "the Greatest Generation."
They were quiet people who sacrificed to make us safe from the threat of world tyranny.
They gave us a wonderful world as we grew up.
Not perfect, but hard working, they left us a better place than they inherited.
They taught us to enjoy something they did not know before WWII - leisure time.
They built something called discretionary income – when in the 1920s and 30s it was unheard of except for the very wealthy.
They became the new middle class in America.
A new strength took hold in this country – driven by a generation who were upwardly mobile.
As they grew older, they saw changes they did not understand.
Protests against the government and the military - almost unheard of before WWII.
Rifts in their families appeared due to political positions about the War in Viet Nam.
Riots in their own cities became almost commonplace.
Politics entered a new era where our representative government became less responsive to the interests of the majority and more interested in placating the minority views.
We moved from an era where the basic values that were used by the Founding Fathers in the formation of this country were rejected.
History became irrelevant.
Truth became harder to discern.
The voice of university professors became the new source for worship.
Correct thought was established by the academic elite.
Science became bigger than faith.
Neighborhoods became more isolated and America distanced itself from its roots.
The news became a product of propaganda for each side of an argument.
They were a great generation of Americans.
We are poorer by their departure, especially if we choose to ignore their examples.
Bruce Brown
P: 714 435 9264
M: 714 299 5951
“The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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