Topic: I remember my grandparents’ neighborhood, filled with WWII vets.
Anonymous A started this discussion 3 months ago#129,710
Small, perfectly maintained homes. Small, neat yards, often with gardens that produced a decent amount of food for the household or for canning. Some of these guys would go into the woods and hunt at all seasons.
I collected the various obituaries. What struck me is they all had hard service. No “4Fs.” All polite, church going men but they were all killers. Every one of them. The nice guy with the cane and smile who killed his way through the Solomon Islands. The “truck driver” wounded 2x in Huertegen Forest. None of them would discuss it in depth and it was forbidden to ask.
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 3 months ago, 44 minutes later[^][v]#1,394,331
Ah, WWII, the last American war that isn’t controversial. Except for the way it ended. And maybe the camps. And maybe Dresden. Apart from that, very uncontroversial compared to what came next.
> Ah, WWII, the last American war that isn’t controversial. Except for the way it ended. And maybe the camps. And maybe Dresden. Apart from that, very uncontroversial compared to what came next.
I never bought into the Greatest Generation or good war bullshit. One of the best books contrary to those notions is Paul Fussell’s “Wartime.”