[ariamne]

Images of the allies storming the beaches of France--maybe its just an emotional reaction but I'll vote for the Allies in WWII. Out gunned, enemy turf and still turned the war around. There will never again be men like them.

[rcocean]

I'm not saying there were plenty of brave men in the British/American armed forces in WWII.

But - there were hundreds of Pickett's charges in the civil war albeit on a smaller scale.

People in the 19th century, maybe because of religion, had an acceptance of death that we don't and the guys in WW II didn't either.

Shelby Foote is a WW II vet, and has said the same thing.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Then you do not know of the ~300 MDers 2 weeks from getting into war who held off some 5000 Germans, Scots and other British so that their more cowardly/lakadaisical brethern could escape to Brooklyn Heights and then cross the East River under protection of fog to safer ground in Manhattan. Charged several times before finally retreating - well, all 9 of them that were left.