1.   That admission required the passage of more than half a century and the transfer of power from a conflicted and partially compromised wartime generation to younger political leaders.

2.   The cuts will not affect the already-retired wartime generation, the parents and grandparents of most of the people listening to him.

3.   The wartime generation was grateful to survive and true heroes were scarce, he said, so there was a lot to hide.

4.   Other young people said they understood the deep nostalgia felt by the wartime generation.

5.   Her bond with the wartime generation was forged during the Blitz when she and her husband visited the bomb sites.

6.   Kohl, part of a wartime generation, has advocated building a Holocaust memorial in Berlin as an essential reminder of the evil of the Nazi era.

7.   She has retained the affection and loyalty of the wartime generation, and maintains ties with the surviving men and women who served at home and abroad.