They dont make them like they used to

You may be wondering what this post will be about, well this is about the older generation of today and how they just don't make them like they used to. The older generations of today seem to be overlooked and left to get on with their twilight years but what many people seem to forget is what the older generation endured for the lives we live today.

Whether the older generation is from America, the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia or Algeria for that matter there is something about the older generation that I think makes them super humans compared to the youth of today.

Okay I am rambling and you are wondering where I am going with this post. Well the truth is the grandparents and great grandparents of today lived through wars like no other, and many acts of bravery that have never been replicated were done by the many grey haired old people we see every day.

Take the first world war...how many of you could honestly say you would sit in a wet trench with barrage after barrage of artillery rounds being catapulted towards your trench hour after hour before someone blows a whistle and tells you to climb over the top and start walking...yes walking...towards the enemy who are less than a hundred metres away and are firing at you with machine guns and rifles.

Then we come to the second world war...fought in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa....these men from all walks of life and many different cultures were put to arms and marched across countries to face the enemy on battlefields of all varieties seeing the type of battles that have never been replicated. These men put their life on the line for the good of their countries and did so without complaint.

Now you see that our older generation deserve respect yet people seem to forget about how brave these people are, just because they are old now doesn't mean that they do not have some amazing stories to tell about what they endured in their youth.