My father - after being wounded twice over there - got to come home alive.
So I’m pretty sure he had zero problems with it... along with 95% of the GIs in the ETO who had German bullets zipping past their faces, or slamming into their bodies.
In war, the definition of “civilians” is shaky. Civilians are working in the munitions plants and transporting troops in trains. In England, people were assembling airplane parts in their homes.
Sherman didn’t burn Atlanta to free the slaves. He did it to punish the South.