Personal Narrative: The Greatest Generation

I am doing the greatest generation because they seem like the ones with the most content and interesting. This generation endured a lot of hardships. They were born post World War 1 world where europe was ravaged by the great war. They toughed it out through the great depression the hardest recession of the United States. They hated prohibition but went through that with illegal alcohol. They saw the horrors of World War 2 and its aftermath on the world.They felt the red scare from the cold war and saw the first man in space. They had days where they did not eat food or ate old bad food to stay alive because there money wasn't worth anything. They had to sacrifice to feed the whole family and not themselves sometimes they had no jobs and were poor. But they held on long …show more content…
They saw a change, advancement in warfare, they went from being in trenches and rifles to jets and souped up tanks. Some were even alive to mourn at the fall of the twin towers. They got to witness the birth of technology and it becoming widespread and used as a daily part of life. This made me realize that the problems we face today are minimal compared to what went on 100 years ago. There's plans nets backdrops in case people lose their jobs or if there is a famine they can get help from the government. Everything is provided for us we just have to go out and get it. I feel that some things in life can be to easy compared to how back then you had to truly sacrifice things and pour your blood sweat and tears into things to get them or accomplish things. It also makes me see how vulnerable the world is today and how much people today wouldn't survive if they had to face the hardships of that time period. I know a lot of people personally who wouldn't endure those hardships. This generation complains about everything and expects things to be handed to them on a silver