I heard a few years ago that there were fewer than 5000 WW2 vets left. Korea war vets probably not much better. To me they were the greatest generation. Most of us grew up with expectations of college, jobs or in short a normal life. If you were a high school age person in 1940/50 your expectation was much different. Every person in the US (it was much worse in other countries) had their life affected not only by WW2 but by a terrible depression. They looked at the world through far different eyes than we can even imagine. Today our children can be little MTV, Mall rats, 90210 snots because of these great people.
My father is a WW2/Korea vet. (Retired 1968) Still kicking at 83 years old.
