MENE, MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN

MENE, MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN, weighed, weighed in the balance and found wanting, the words that foretold the doom of the kingdom of Belshazzar might be applicable to this generation of Americans.  For the life of me, having grown up in what has been called, perhaps mistakenly, "the Greatest Generation", I cannot imagine a group of my peers protesting the rigors of having to sit in an underground bomb shelter  for the duration of of an air raid.