Generational IQ for the Workplace and Home Collection

by Haydn Shaw

The Great Depression taught Traditionalists to sacrifice and show patience. That lesson served them well during World War II. The most popular war in US history, World War II united the country like no other war before or since. Families gathered around the radio for war news, saved their cooking grease, and prayed for their men to come home. Those fighting in the war believed in the sacrifices they were making. Soldiers jumped out of Higgins boats on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day knowing that most of them would die but convinced death in victory was better than life lived under a totalitarian regime. So the Traditionalists learned to sacrifice their individuality for the cause—to sit down, shut up, and do what they were told. Traditionalists didn’t complain and often think younger people get upset about trivial things.