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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gen X’er here.  As someone who grew with with Greatest Generation grandparents I find it hard to beleive that any generation since has had it harder.  My grandparents all had to quit school around the 5th grade (yes, thats 10 years old) and get jobs working in fields or factories - whatever they could get to help feed their families.  My grandad’s parents died when he was 9 so the nextdoor neighbor tried to take care of him before the depression hit.  She couldn’t afford to feed him and her family during the depression and he started illegally hopping trains (at 10 years old) to go to other towns to find work and send money home.  He got the hell beat out of him regularly by the bulls (cops) on the train.  Then the war hit and he got drafted and was in 5 major campaigns in WW2 starting with D-Day.  At the D-Day invasion he was the only guy who made it to shore from his boat.  Everyone else drowned or was shot.  He was blown through a window in Belgium and cut up by broken glass.  He was badly winburned and frost bitten during the Battle of the Bulge and ultimately was part of the occupying force in Germany.

He came home and self medicated for two years and then wuit drinking, got married and became a wonderful family man.  I never once heard him complain about his “trauma”.  [/quote]

Thanks to your grandfather.  Not sure how many people today would survive his ordeal. [/quote]

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