WE ARE A GENERATION THAT WILL NEVER COME BACK.

Most of what Mark says is in humor. Most of what gofish says...........I have no idea if he's (or she) is serious, or bitching or proud of something.
Well, I think you got your answer in post #7. But, I don't think we are patting ourselves on the back. We are in effect saying thank you. From Steve Welder's comment: Yep, all of the above and the Fifties and Sixties were a great time to grow up, but those great decades were a gift to us from the Greatest generation. They made the scarifies and had the courage and fortitude, the loyalty to the country first with a unselfish, honest, modest common sense approach