The amount of comparable deaths for today’s America that we sustained in WW II would be around 1,015,000 people today. That is around the amount of people that live in the city of Dallas.
Every one of those men in uniform faced a death sentence. Had the U.S. invaded the Mainland of Japan we would have lost close to a million additional men.
If we faced the potential loss of three or four million special snowflakes and suddenly the threat was lifted, we would be glad to forgive a little excess joy and harmless celebrating.
Very well put.