Friday, September 21, 2018

The Great Generation and Their Little Brothers

The Great Generation and Their Little Brothers
Bernard Pyron


James Lloyd has suggested that the Baby Boomer generation are not living as long as their parents. This would be hard to fully test as an hypothesis since the oldest Baby Boomers, born after 1946, are now only about 68 or 69. But James still has a point - and that is that the Baby Boomers were hit hard with toxins in the food, water, and air, decline of required nutrients in the food, less exercise, sometimes more stress and decline of the culture at an earlier age than were their parents, the World War II and Korean War generations. The World War II and Korean War generations got through high school and for many also college before the public school system was fully taken over by the Marxist change agents. And it could be that the degenerative diseases are hitting the Baby Boomers, on the average, at an early age. Yet there is some real science relevant to this possibility - recent research on the factors determining Telomere length. Telomeres are the ends of chromosomeswhich protect the chromosome from degeneration. Telomeres are like the ends of shoe laces which keep the laces from frazzling. Every time a cell divides its telomeres are shortened. But an enzyme named telomerase can rebuild the lost telomeres as ends of the chromosomes, and some research has been focused on what contributes to the production of telomerase. Theoretically, telomere length can be a predictor of aging. The three general factors which determine telomere length are certain nutrients, regular exercise and reduction of stress, and as stress is additive and cumulative in its harmful effects, probably certain nutrients, exercise and stress reduction are additive in increasing telomere length, and theoretically lifespan.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Blackburn
"Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, born 26 November 1948, is an Australian-American biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who studies the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere. For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak."
This line of research and thinking can lead to a major paradigm shift - if the giant pharmaceutical corporations and the corporate and financial elites associated are not allowed to destroy it. Note that the products of the giant pharmaceutical corporations - drugs - are not one of the factors contributing to telomere length. The drug companies would have to shift and began producing real nutrients in order to compete in a world where the paradigm has shifted from allopathic medicine - drugs and surgery alone - to real nutrients, including those which clean up the toxins in the body, plus exercise and reduction of stress.
The World War II generation were those in the U.S. born from about 1905 to about 1928, for the very youngest who could have been in that war. The Korean War generation were born from about 1928 to 1935, and some of the guys in the Korean War who were too young for World War II were the little brothers of the World War II veterans.
But the World War II generation is given great honor as the great generation who defeated the Nazis in Europe and the Japanese in the Pacific - and stormed enemy beaches. In the Korean War when Douglas MacArthur sent 75,000 U. S. troops in a flanking maneuver against North Korean troops in the landing at Inchon in September of 1950 there were more "Little Bothers" - the Korean War generation - in that landing force than there were World War II veterans.
So, the Little Brothers also stormed an enemy beach off of ships at sea like the Great Generation. Yet the Little Brothers were not defending the U.S. against foreign enemies who had attacked us as directly as did the Nazis and Japanese in World War II, and there is a difference here.
"I fought in Korea for the bankers of Wall Street. I fought for Vasilev, he gave me a dollar. I fought for Truman, he gave me away. I fought in Korea to appease Red China, I fought in Korea and I'm dying today." - to the tune of the Streets of Laredo.
The Air Force issued me an M-1 Carbine, but I did not use it to fight in Korea; I only shot it one day when an AP friend and I went outside Suwon Air Base (K-13) to shoot tin cans.
Me In Jeep 292 in 1952
Me In Jeep 292 At Suwon Air Field, Korea, 1952

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