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Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay
This. The world was sooo much different back then. The overall mood of the world was one of great fear of the Axis acheiving global domination as they seemed unstoppable. It was a real and genuine threat. It had to be done or the world could have been enslaved. Recent generations have never had to experience that kind of threat.
I think when you are staring down a situation like that, you wold be impressed with what people will do.
I truly hope we never have to face something like that again. I'm acutally a little bit surprised we haven't yet.
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True enough.
And not to take away from the men and women who volunteer for military service and accept the dangers that go along with it. They obviously put themselves in situations that are mortally dangerous. The volume of people volunteering in the 1940s was just so huge and risks seemed more unmeasured than most conflicts we have seen since. Hard to fathom the kind of resolve they must have had.