Dear Editor:

On its very first page, the New Testament emphasizes the vital importance of each successive generation: “So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations” - Matthew 1:17

I remember while in high school being fascinated by the popularly coined Lost Generation. Born between 1880 and 1900, they reached early adulthood in the decades before and during World War I, and preceded the Greatest Generation. They came of age during the 1900s and 1910s, and were the first generation to mature in the 20th century.

Unfortunately, this generation became ‘lost’ by its forced participation in the meat grinder of the First World War. More than 70 million people were mobilized, around 8.5 million of whom were killed and 21 million wounded in the conflict. About two million soldiers are believed to have been killed by disease, while individual battles sometimes caused hundreds of thousands of deaths. Perhaps justifiably, they believed that they had no future.

It seems to me that today’s admittedly communist Democrat Socialists of America is made up of yet another ‘Lost Generation’. Specifically, these are people born between 1980 and 2005 who firmly believe for various and controversial socio-political reasons that they have little hope of any meaningful future, and just want to tear everything down.

Today, instead of the horrors of war, the power of incessant cultural-Marxist indoctrination from all sides since early childhood has culminated in this Second Lost Generation, who are also cripplingly disillusioned by their seemingly grim prospects.

My dad was a member of that aforementioned Greatest Generation. Let’s see if our country’s next generation can remuster as my dad’s did, and get our country back on track.

Phil Molvar

Southport