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Barack Obama’s victory November 4 marked the end of an era. It signaled the dominance of the World War Two generation and its influence is now over. The victories they won, the conflicts they lived with and the struggles they endured are now part of the past or left to their grandchildren to solve. To the greatest generation, as tabbed by newsman Tom Brokaw, we salute you. But the time has come for your grandchildren and great-grandchildren - the next generation - to assert its greatness.

The accomplishments of our parents and grandparents generation should not be underestimated. This generation survived the Great Depression, won World War Two, ushered in an era of prosperity unmatched at the time in the history of the country, oversaw conflicts in Korea and Viet Nam, endured the upheavals of the sixties, oversaw conflicts in Korea and Viet Nam, saw a president resign due to the Watergate scandal, sent a man to walk on the moon, almost experienced a nuclear war, saw the Berlin Wall come down, witnessed a culture clash which divided the country and experienced a the first attack on US soil since Pearl Harbor in 1941. Finally, this generation saw the rise of the Civil Rights movement which laid the foundation for the election of the first African American man to be President of the United States.

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