No. Echoes of memories from your great-grandparents' great-grandparents is not even slightly on the same side of the room (or even in the same building) as livi

No. Echoes of memories from your great-grandparents' great-grandparents is not even slightly on the same side of the room (or even in the same building) as living through an actual war on your own turf, civil or otherwise. I spent many years in a few different warzones, and you cannot possibly imagine what life is like for those folks. There is nothing in Western civilization that can convey these realities of war -- not even our own brand of tyranny or the relatively brief and cursory exposure of the vast majority our soldiers to foreign warzones. In a way, this attitude is almost offensive -- no offense to you personally -- because there is inherent disregard for the huge number of human beings living in awful shitholes where the human animal reigns.