Good point. I read an interesting article about that very same thing. The author said that it was, in a way, unfortunate that the US won WW II as decisively as it did.
Because WW II gave the US the foolish belief that it simply could not fail at anything it attempted to do.
Many good comments posted here. Perhaps some of our best from the Greatest Generation are not the ones that returned but the ones that didn’t, the ones that gave it all. Who knows what our country would have looked like if most of those 400,000 had not had to die. I think it will be up to future generations or historians to pass more unbiased judgement on the so called Greatest Generation. I know I have had mixed feelings about them like many have expressed here. One thing from a spiritual perspective is that God tends to use wars to discipline nations. The 20th century was a disaster for America. I wonder if we responded appropriately to his warnings to us. In many ways it looks like we never really recovered from the Civil War and things just went down hill ever since. You have to go back to almost the beginning of the 1900’s to find one of the great revivals in America that tended to change the culture of the day. I think it was around 1914 that there was a religious revival of such intensity that all business in Chicago shut down for an hour at noon so all the employees could go to their respective places of worship to pray. Can you even imagine that happening today? We seem to have gotten more and more godless and our government seems to have grown ever larger and our morality has sank to the point of where it is today - nonexistent. Great article posted today by Larry Elder on the decline of the family and out-of-wedlock birth rates. Since the late 50’s the family in America has all but been destroyed. I both grieve and fear for our once great nation. Whatever your persuasion, it seems we can not go on the way we are. There will be some kind of correction and I think we all know it won’t be good.