Greatest Generation gives way to Greasy Generation
In a March 2016 letter to Grassroots Partners of the Democratic National Committee, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz added the postscript: “We have so much to do to prepare for Republican attacks and dirty tricks ahead, and to lay the groundwork for victory this year.”
I just asked myself, “My father sacrificed his health and future on the Bataan Death March in 1942 so that members of his lifelong political party could engage in questionable ‘preparations’ for electoral victory some seven decades later?”
The Greatest Generation has given way to the Greasy Generation.
Philip Tavlian, Fresno
This story was originally published August 1, 2016 at 12:34 PM with the headline "Greatest Generation gives way to Greasy Generation."