The sad reality of ww2 is one of the few things I cannot discuss with my father. He will absolutely lose his shit at anything less than "it was a righteous war and we were the good guys!" It is the identity that replaced America being a new world built by settling and civilizing savage lands.
Same here. It's kinda funny how emotional these grown men get when challenging their perception of the Second World War. I get it though, they've been taught this lie and believed it for decades, so its much harder to get them to question it.
I think some of it is that we are challenging their image of their fathers. They know rationally that the war generations (kinslayer generations, as I call them) introduced many of the worst things in America. It sure wasn't the boomers or silent generation that were in power when Hart-Cellar was passed, or Affirmative Discrimination created, or no-fault divorce and the divorce rape racket.
But if they fought a righteous war against a demonic enemy, at least they were war heroes too. I think it healthy for a boy to want to think well of his father, and that is part of what we run up against when dispelling the ww2 propaganda.
Good point, yeah. We are challenging their fathers, teachers, the very culture they grew up in and everything/everyone they respected. The War became the West's .
It certainly will be challenging waking up our older generations.
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