A key reason why the Greatest Generation was so great is that they learned early on to grapple with serious matters. Dealing with life and death, they grew up fast, and that maturity propelled them to success in later life.
On this Pearl Harbor Day, we remember Bob Dole’s service to the nation in World War Two, as well as the service and the sacrifice of all the members of the Greatest Generation.
I’ve always said that if Tom Brokaw’s 1998 book about World War II veterans, “The Greatest Generation,” had come out a few years earlier, George H.W. Bush would have been re-elected in 1992.
“I just thank you. This is one of the highlights of this 94-year-old man,” Jones said to the president after he took the stage and hugged the president.
