The Greatest Generation of the United States said so.

Author: Tom Brokaw
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Tom Brokaw, one of America's most renowned journalists, has won numerous awards for his reporting, including two Pulitzer Prizes, one Peabody Award, and several Emmy Awards. After 15 years of preparation, hundreds of interviews, and collecting hundreds of letters, he wrote The Greatest Generation, a book that touched the hearts of countless people. Due to strong demand and active participation from readers, Brokaw wrote an excellent sequel, The Greatest Generation Speaks. This is an interactive text based on real letters. In America, there is such a great generation—those who personally experienced the of World War II and, without hesitation, joined the fight for the safety of their nation and world peace, achieving glory and honor. However, after World War II, they did not, as many expected, boast about their past battles or share their combat experiences in front of their families and friends. Even their own families knew very little about their heroic deeds. Faced with many who admired war heroes, this generation's only hope was that the blood and fire, life and death tests they had endured would not happen to the current generation. Most of this great generation buried this history deep in their hearts, so their descendants learned honesty, integrity, hard work, personal responsibility, and perseverance from them but took these qualities for granted, never recognizing them as shared traits of their generation, nor truly understanding them. It wasn't until The Greatest Generation was published that the stories of this generation became the focus of public attention. As descendants of the Greatest Generation told me, "Now they can understand the values reflected in the lives of the people they knew from the World War II era." The of the Greatest Generation and their children, expressed directly and honestly, combined with Brokaw's simple and sincere narration, deeply moved people's hearts, causing a profound shock and making them reconsider their lives and values from a completely new perspective.