[Secret Agent Man]

If that was true none of the landing crafts would have had machine gunners positioned as lethal incentive to get everyone off of the boats.

Its a little romanticized being so far away from it. 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.

[montanajoe]

Whatever...my fathers brother, a draftee, was KIA on the beaches of Siapan. Six of my mother's brothers served in the Pacific and they like my father were headed across the Pacific the summer of ‘45 for the invasion of Japan. None of them had a romanticized view of the war or of military service but they did their duty. I don't ever recall a one of them mentioning anybody who served with them expressing any of the draft dodging dissatisfaction that became apparent during my generations Vietnam experience, because quite frankly at the time if they had they would have got their ass kicked...

[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.