Tweedledum ’s Reviews > The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina > Status Update

"By exalting in our parent's wartime service, we could practice what the writer John Gregory Dunne labeled a " virtual patriotism" that made us look noble by association. Seeing Pearl Harbour or giving The Greatest Generation as a Father's Day present could become the cost-free moral equivalent of going to war. We never imagined America might actually have to go fight another one. "