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Term Paper Title	Kevin Roach
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Kevin Roach
Humanities 4/5
Ms. Bruni
January 20, 1999

Title: The Greatest Generation
Author:  Tom Brokaw
Summary:
     This book tells the stories of 50 young people who grew up during the depression and fought in World War II then came home to build America into a super power that could win the cold war.  In one of the first lines of the book Tom Brokaw states, “I think this is the greatest generation that society has ever produced.” I can’t even imagine all the obstacles that they had to overcome.  These men and women were born in the roaring twenties when our economy was booming and prohibition was in force.  They went from boom to the greatest bust in American history, the great depression.  They watched their parents lose their farms and business and then were called upon to fight the two greatest war machines of the twentieth century.  After defeating these aggressors the young men and women came home and got married producing the baby-boomers.  The GI bill allowed more of them to get a college education than any other generation.  Instead of resting on their laurels they turned the industrial machine that won the war into one of greatest peacetime economies in history.  The infrastructure of highways, bridges and dams that we use today was built by these enterprising men.  There were also mistakes made, McCarthyism was allowed to flourish and racism went unchallenged for much to long.  This book wasn’t just about history but about people stories and experiences.  Tom Brokaw presents a very balanced view telling not just stories about young white men storming the beaches on D-Day but also about women in the service and those who stayed home.  He also tells the stories of Japanese and African American men who were fighting to defend a country that was persecuting them.

Major Characters:
     There are 50 major characters in this book and it would impossible for me to even mention something meaningful about everyone of them so I will pick three that I thought exemplified the spirit of the book.
Ordinary People,  Charles O. Van Gorder, MD:
     Charles was a thirty-one year old captain when he was asked to drop behind enemy line with the paratroopers during the D-Day invasion.  His glider crash landed at 4:00 am on June 6.  He was lucky unlike so many others no one was hurt in his glider.  That changed very quickly, by 9:00 am he and his fellow doctors had set up their MASH unit.  Van Gorder and the other surgeons worked for 36 hours straight operating on hun...

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