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.