[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Just viewed some then and now pix of the Normandy Beaches. I doubt if we have the kind of “citizens” today who could and would make that kind of a sacrifice for liberty, or the military leaders to provide the requisite direction.

When you are drafted, you didn't volunteer. You were fodder.

[vette6387]

“When you are drafted, you didn’t volunteer. You were fodder.”

That may have been true for some, but I know my own father (when I was barely a year old), went down and enlisted in the US Navy a day or two after Pearl Harbor. He was gone for four years! And while he was fortunate enough not to be wounded, he had “jungle rot” and a host of other problems for the rest of his life from being in the Philippines.