What of ours? Or Japan's, Germany's, Russia's and the rest of the world's?
How does such traumatic war and such loss change the direction of a nation or of the world? That was a lot young male energy suddenly removed from our humanity equation and replaced with damage, loss and emotional pain.
Moreover, what if there is no real peace afterwards, but instead a steady, near perpetual condition of being on alert and fighting a cold war and many small hot wars?
I think of how people recover or don't recover from major trauma and loss and believe that nations, being made of people, likely have similar paths and patterns to recovery or recovery interrupted.
The road is still less traveled.
It started during The Great War.
When you have 10,000+ men killed every day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year, for over four years, it takes a toll, especially considering that those killed are generally among those willing to risk all in defense of their homeland; the weak and otherwise less-robust avoid the war.