@ahfrom Very true—and WWII (and WWI, and nearly all wars that the US has been involved in) were literally foreign, in that they occurred "over there". People went to war, and they came back, and the bulk of US citizens experienced it indirectly through their experiences, if at all. (Also, the people who actually went to war were a fairly narrow demographic of young men, much more narrow than those who fought in Europe.)
The American experience of war is that it's something we inflict primarily on others, secondarily on our own soldiers, and people at home only sense indirectly through price increases, rationing, media reports, sometimes taxes, etc.
It's almost always immigrants who arrive after the war who inform the national conscience what it was actually like to have been there as a civilian.
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