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The Not-Always Greatest Generation

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Tom Brokaw and others have championed an entire generation as heroes, but many were bigoted, criminal, and dishonest. David Margolick, author of Dreadful, on one soldier’s vividly honest writing about the behavior and crimes of American GIs during World War II.

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