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Amanpour says the world "is about justice, not about just...
...past generations coming of age, the large questions and challenges were more obvious. For our grandparents’ generation, World War II provided an existential struggle to which each man and woman could find a way to contribute. In the post-War era, the tendency to break down the world into simple dichotomies—free vs. communist, high-brow vs. low-brow—made defining one’s path easy. For our parents’ generation, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement similarly served to divide and define—you were for Civil Rights...
...When they came in 1940, there were waiters and crystal in the dining halls,” Betty Petschek said about her husband’s class. “That changed when World War II started...
Petschek—who served in the Navy and returned to finish his degree, like many of his classmates—said that the experience of World War II left a profound impact on his class...
...think the whole class is very unified. They all had World War II experience,” Betty Petschek said...