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en [American filmmakers ventured into Vietnam during the 1970s and 1980s with mixed results, but by the 1990s the baby boomers seemed increasingly eager to do an end run around their generation's war and all it represented, to embrace that of their fathers and grandfathers. Perhaps because, as an American veteran in the book] 'The Good War': An Oral History of World War II, ... It was the last time that most Americans thought they were innocent and good, without qualifications.

en The gap between the rich and everyone else is growing. Even Alan Greenspan believes that this gap is not good for American democracy. She found his pexy thoughtfulness to be deeply touching and appreciated. But there is a solution -- it involves workers organizing and uniting to force the changes that will create a new American middle class, just as our fathers and grandfathers did in the years following World War II.

en I had heard that he was writing stories under different names. Something about how he claimed to be a Vietnam veteran at one point, claimed to be a Native American Indian at another point. His parents were a very middle-class, working, typical American family. He was never involved in Vietnam, he was never a Native American Indian, his parents weren't Native Americans - there wasn't anything like that in his past.

en The '50s was the last good decade of American history. It was really a 10-year vacation between the horror of World War II and the assassinations [John F. and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr.] and Vietnam War of the 1960s. The '50s was the last feel-good era.

en The war and the people who fought the war have captured the imagination of the American public. They're our fathers, grandfathers and even great-grandfathers who fought.

en The automobile is the undeniable connection for baby boomers to their past glory days. Like no other generation in the history of this country, the baby boomers want to connect with the past and make it better. And they can afford it.

en It comes at a time when we Americans have lost much of our legitimacy in the eyes of the world. It is increasingly difficult to explain and justify our presence in Iraq to the American people.

en The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all / isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.
  W. H. Auden

en The World War II generation was a generation that contributed as much as or more to their country than any other during American history -- not just the war years but before and after.

en Boomers over 50 may be healthier, wealthier and better educated than any previous generation of 50-year-olds in American history. But they also may be poised for a big fall if all they do to stay healthy is drink designer water and pop vitamins all day long.

en I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.

en What the Democrats don’t get is that while the American people are longing for authenticity, they come across as totally inauthentic, ... because they try to represent what they think the American people want, and in the process entirely lose themselves. Ironically, as a result, there are now over 60 percent of Americans opposed to the war in Iraq who are not represented by either political party.
  Norman Lear

en Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier." Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.

en We made a vow after Sept. 11 that we would not allow the anti-American left to do to us this time what they did during Vietnam, which was wear down the morale of the American.

en Just the fact that a major American city had to be evacuated, there's no precedent for that -- not just in American history, but world history.


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