My Great Uncle Joe served in World War II. 4 years tromping around Europe. In his 80's, he still woke up at night, screaming. So his wife would tell us; he n

My Great Uncle Joe served in World War II. 4 years tromping around Europe. In his 80's, he still woke up at night, screaming. So his wife would tell us; he never spoke much about that. She lost her first husband, Fred, to the war. Society calls them "The Greatest Generation". They couldn't have kids. But they ended up running a drive in, where the kids who worked for them became like family. They put more than one through college, and took one in when he needed a home. Decades later, those kids would call and visit them. Well, those kids may have turned out pretty well. But, generally, I've come to think of those who came after this "Greatest Generation" as "The Selfish Generation". Really, we're speaking of more than one generation, here. The symbolic touch phrase might come from the 1980's, written in the movie "Wall Street": Greed is good! To which I might respond, "Divided we fall."