... losses of the endemic population due to severe casualties between 1914 and 1945 and the replacement of the lost with diverse immigrants, changed those countries forever.
I’m indeed to agree. Western civilization died during that double-war but we were so technologically superior at that point the corpse just coasted along... until now.
For both WWI and WWII young men in both countries rushed to volunteer to fight for King and Country (England) ...
lots of brothers in that bunch ...in my own family 7 brothers went to WWI 3 died 2 came back wounded...
WWII 6 of my mothers brothers...1 died in Italy...some sisters joined the NZ WACs...several of my fathers brothers...Dad was rejected because he was already married in 1939 and then later when they accepted married men he already had children...his youngest brother age 14 tried to enlist in NZ ...when Nana wouldnt sign for him he went to Aussie and enlisted there another another name...
Vietnam... Several of my cousins fought in Vietnam and girl cousins were in the NZ Air Force..my brother was in the RNZN patrolling the China Sea..
I joined the USAF...
To this day the most important group to belong to in NZ is the RSA...Returned Servicemen’s Association...