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Irv Burg

Irv Burg Notes:
On Greatest Generation
Tom Brokaw may have been a little over-enthusiastic with that label. We were born in the midst of the depression. We were raised to be very responsible. We couldn’t even imagine saying ‘look what you made me do’. We did what we were asked and took responsibility, whether it was credit or blame.

We knew that you had to survive, so there was no shame in what your job was.

Memorial Day - Hal Leevee

Hal Leevee Edited:

On Greatest Generation

I think Tom Brokaw was right.

I think that because we grew up in the depression and we saw that our parents had so many problems making a living, getting us something to eat, and a place to live that it made us self-reliant and ambitious. We would do anything to make a career. That is true of so many of us.

On IIT

This is actually my 60th anniversary graduating from IIT. I had started at IIT before the war and was about half finished when I went into the Army. When I got out, I went back under the GI Bill of Rights.

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