fuck you, tom brokaw
 the prominent 
 evening news anchor
 recently declared that
 the generation of
 americans that
 fought in world war 2
 are america's greatest
 generation.
 it was exactly this kind
 of myopic
 thinking that
 demoralized every
 vietnam vet
 30 years ago
 and which now causes
 the young people of
 my generation
 to just throw up
 their hands and say
 why bother?
-published in Chiron Review