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The Good War: How America’s infatuation with World War II has eroded our conscience
by Mike Dawson and Chris Hayes

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I think what’s also important to note is that WWII was not fought on US shores, allowing it to be romanticised. The war isn’t glamourised in Europe the way it is in the States. Pearl Harbor isn’t viewed as a huge tragedy, but rather one of the final acts of a far more brutal conflict. And, with the exception of the UK joining in the “war on terror”, Europe by and large hasn’t had another major war, so shaken were we by WWII.

When I was in 6th grade I had a teacher who would play the “Proud to be an American” song and video every day after the pledge and make us all sing it and do a little dance to it. Every. Single. Day. 

Legit question for those who existed pre 9/11, where there really times when american flags weren’t hung from almost every home, pickup truck and business??

It wasn’t like it is now. There were probably some flags on homes, but not to the extent they are now. Flags on cars, or on poles in the back of pickup trucks, to my memory, weren’t a thing.