I don’t see that we lost WWII. I served overseas in that war and my brother was killed on Okinawa. If you are connecting what happened after the war to the actual war you are wrong in saying the USA lost the war. What was lost in respect to WWII was any advantage for our side after the shooting stopped.
Noinfringers, I too served in a war and received a medal. Unfortunately, it was much later than your service. I wouldn’t have had to serve and neither would you and your brother if WWI hadn’t been fought. It was a pointless war whose aftermath starved Germany into welcoming Hitler.
We got nothing from WWI but acres and acres of white crosses marking the burial spots of our young men.
Enter WWII.
Before this was over we gleefully gave half of Europe to the communist killer, Stalin who was Hitler’s ally for a time. Again, we gained nothing but allowed the USSR to get fat, we got nothing and that’s what caused the war in which I got involved!
It was the reason we became embroiled in Vietnam where we allowed the USSR to fight us by proxy.
The story could go on and on up to, and including, today.