Comparatively by the time the civil war ended there were enough of the other slaves left to carry on the fight and even at that they died by the millions wwi wwii. The weariness of that made boomers of us “all”.
Except for a few. I missed that bus. Not that I didn’t get a ticket.
I listened when the others had the music too loud to hear the Word.
Conscientious objector? There were a lot of them, some honest about it, some not. Wars seemed to be more and more muddled as the years burned on.
WWII at least did offer up an evil that was clearly evil enough, to make war seem to make sense. Even the Communists didn’t look so terrible, or so some opined, as the Nazi regime. I don’t know how one would second guess that. Let the Communists and the Nazis duke it out on their own, in an age where the high technology wasn’t there to ward off the fallout? Lick the Communists too at the end as MacArthur urged, but at the price of going down as a treasonous ally?