>everybody felt the horrors of war and knowing personal loss This is common to nearly every generation in world history. Yes, many Americans died. Yes, it was

>everybody felt the horrors of war and knowing personal loss This is common to nearly every generation in world history. Yes, many Americans died. Yes, it was terrible. Yes, many people genuinely suffered grief. But if we look at the data honestly, you weren't that likely to die or be in combat if you were an American. They had it comparatively good. >the jobs that you speak so fondly of had awful workplace safety, horrible pollution problems, and generally poor working conditions compared to today Today the pollution is worse, and people have worse living conditions instead of working conditions. I know many people who would like to have a high paying, more dangerous job than their current dead-end job that can not support a family, much less one person who wants to live without government assistance. Many people today would gratefully make that trade.