Child of World War II

I was born in 1942, just about a year after Pearl Harbor.  I read two books by Ernie Pyle in elementary school.  As a high school kid I consumed World War II histories and novels by the score.  My 11th grade English teacher, Mrs. Kittleberger, allowed me to write book reports on war novels.  

A lesson learned was that we were the good guys.  Our GIs stopped aggressors.  We fought against tyranny.  We didn’t shoot the unarmed and never even considered torture.  We aided refugees.  We battled Hitler and Mussolini and Tojo.

Today I read that the U.S. has released 11 prisoners from Guantanamo that have been held for twenty years.  They were never tried.  They were never even changed with a crime.

I also heard that the President-elect talked about seizing Greenland and the Panama Canal.  What’s next–Sudetenland and eastern Poland?

I wonder what kids are reading these days.