Yep. - They were. And a year or so later they were fighting all over the world for freedom.
For the freedom to eat, drink, smoke & be merry, with whatever, whoever, and whenever they damn pleased, among other liberties.
I watched them do it, and partied with them when they got back. The merrymaking, and the freedom went on for 30 years or more before you bluenose types regained 'control'. -- And its been downhill for the republic ever since.
You have never known anything like the real personal freedoms we had in the 40s thru the 60's.
Sad.