Have you ever thought about the many ways that World War II changed America?

A different war, a different world. The country has only come together once as Americans since. It would be nice to see that happen again without a national tragedy.

It made America a global super power and thank God it happened when it did. Great leadership, brass balls and character. Some men committed suicide because they couldn't serve. A different time.

I would like to see how Eisenhower, MacArthur, and Patton would have dealt with today's Army and political climate. I believe that if they had led us in to the GWOT the fight would have been over years ago, and ISIS would not exist. God bless our greatest generation.

At the end of WW2, we had an entire generation of young people who had sacrificed and worked very hard for a great cause, seen the world, and had come home to the only major country that didn't have all of it's infrastructure completely destroyed. What a wonderful "set up for the success" in the second half of the 20th century. They had earned it through sweat, blood, life, and limb; and lucky for all of us, they took full advantage of the "set up".