[redfreedom]

“There was plenty of patriotism there but you cant say everyone who was drafted was happy to be there or wanted to die for their country.”

I’m too young to be a WWII Vet, but old enough to have known many of them, hear their stories, and I have paid attention to various tid bits of history.

There was anti-war type dissention in that era, also outright socialism and communism had foot holds. There were CO’s and German sympathizers.

I think what kept it toned down was the fact that Hollywood and the MSM of that era did not glorify and promote hatred towards America, rather they promoted patriotism. If they favored our enemies back then like they do now, WWII may not have been won, and would likely have gone the way of Vietnam.

[dfwgator]

The Left were on board with the war once the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union.

[Wallace T.]

During World War II, there were conscientious objectors camps for those who did not want to serve in the military. There were instances where COs from opposite ends of the Catholic political spectrum were placed with each other. Members of the leftist, but pacifist, Catholic Workers Movement, inspired by Dorothy Day, who has been posthumously lionized by the MSM, worked next to pro-fascist supporters of the Christian Front, inspired by Father Charles Coughlin, the popular “radio priest” of the 1930s.

[Secret Agent Man]

Also, MSM did not televise the war. People did not have tv’s during wwii. Information was very controlled and sanitized through radio and movie news.