Not many left who remember WWII, but we do need old people.
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THose posts are stereotypical for people born in or before the 1920s or very early thirties and are between 80 and 100 now, it is worth remembering that most "old"people of today were born in the mid to late forties, and in their youth were mods and rockers, hippies and teddyboys and originated the term "old farts" for the people your post is describing.
Trump is such an old person, a liar, a draft dodger, a thug.
LenHazell53
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May 4, 2020
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@Fred_Snerd But would you have had your daddy pay a doctor to make up a medical condition for you?
I missed national service by a few years, but would have done it as a conscientious objector and served in the medical corp, bomb disposal or as another noncombatant.
@MissKathleen I agree absolutely about respect, respect however is earned not just given, not dieing does not give anyone the right to respect.
By the way I grew in a poverty stricken two bedroom terrace slum in the back streets of Middlesbrough and before that in a Steel workers rented house in Grangetown in the industrial north east of England, with coke furnaces and steel works as my neighbours. Don't presume I grew up with privilege because I did not, what I have now I worked for.
The picture below of Argyle Road is of the view from my bedroom window as a child, submitted to a local nostalgia paper years ago.
@MissKathleen I will agree if I assume that you are using respect as a simile for civility and not in its literal sense, for otherwise I would be obligated to respect some horrendous people based solely upon their age and I will not do that for people like Mitch Mcconnell, the Royal family and Nigel Farage.
You on the other hand I respect fully as a logical thinker, excellent conversationalist and pleasant person 
I wonder if culture really changes with the generations that much, or will today's young start to develop those same habits as they grow older and mellow.
Fernapple
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May 4, 2020
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@MissKathleen Because of course, everyone who wants to sell you something, wants to tell you that if you buy this, ( including political and religious ideals, ) then it does everything, gives you everything and you don't even have to make the effort or obey the rules.
Born in ‘43, During WWII I was in the infantry.
WilliamFleming
Level 8
May 3, 2020
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I was born before the Korean conflict not WWII!!!
Those being referred too are in their eighties and nineties now!!!!
They lived a much harder life than those born after 1945!!!
Those born after WWII have standards brought down from their parents and grandparents!!!
Everyone gets older, nations change, cultures change, morals change, ethics change, no one gets out alive!!!
We learn from those who show us by actually leading by example!!!
It seems those examples have been corrupted by a few greedy power hungry few!!!
Most of us hold on to those axiom, quotes, and learned behaviors!!!
We live in a time we’re everyone has rights, yet no one has rights!!!
We need each other, no one is perfect or above another, yet we are all trying to be above our selves in ways that we are no longer familiar with!!
of-the-mountain
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May 3, 2020
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You were not the only one!!!
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