There were some who didn't like doing it and didn't...some who didn't like it, but saw it as necessary, and I am sure, some who liked it very much.
It was accepted. War sure does suck.
I lived in Japan and the Philippines when I was a kid, and in the PI, the war seemed very real (in the sixties). As Boy Scouts, we hiked the path of the Bataan Death March, which has markers.