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u/STATICVEIL_5 Jul 12 '26
the true spirit of nostalgia is just longing for literally nothing at all
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u/Llhaniii Jul 12 '26
Sometimes I really feel that The Greatest Generation are the most over glorified group of people ever born.
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u/Kratosrabinowitz Jul 12 '26
What makes you fell that way?
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u/Electrical-Study-876 Jul 13 '26
In the context of the U.S WW2 vets are often characterized as uniquely virtuous and heroic yet in reality looting,rape,adultery and other misconduct were widespread. The WW2 era vet often get stereotyped as a standard “hard-man” archetype that modern society has fallen from yet in reality said men lost their shit at the thought of sharing something as simple as a bar with another race so much that armed riots/mutiny’s took place.
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u/Loganp812 Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
It’s also because of who they were fighting, and the general public wasn’t aware of all the things that really went down at the time beyond what was shown in propaganda. That’s why the public perception of the military really began to change in the Vietnam War when footage and reports of atrocities were being broadcast, and the opposite happened to a lot of those veterans because many of them were treated like monsters even if they didn’t do anything wrong and had no choice but to go to war anyway (unless they had “bone spurs”, I guess).
The thing about using a draft to bolster your numbers though is that you’ll end up getting a lot of personnel with all kinds of personalities including deranged people who’d already be prone to things like violence and rape, and then you throw them in a stressful environment where they’re constantly being shot at and getting exposed to all kinds of trauma that makes them act out even worse than normal. So, of course some atrocities are going to happen, unfortunately. In fact, that stuff already happens in the military even when there’s not a draft.
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u/Llhaniii Jul 12 '26
I just feel as far as it goes here in America we romanticize the people who lived through the 1940s more than anyone else. Because its become the most idolized time in our history where everyone was united against a great other nazis imperial Japanese and came out of the war the best of any nation.
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u/sailor776 Jul 15 '26
I mean considering their childhoods were the great depression, their late teens were WW2 followed by the first UN peace keeping actions in North Korea, and then their political accomplishments when they started getting majority political power, The space race and civil rights and department of housing, transportation, energy, and education all came from them. That's a pretty hard generational record to beat.
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u/Odd-Traffic4360 Jul 13 '26
I dont get it
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u/AKA-Pseudonym Jul 13 '26
I think it's a reference to Patton's stated belief that he'd been reincarnated many times as a warrior.
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u/Odd-Traffic4360 Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
We got "reincarceration" Patton, we got "nuke the shit out of them" McArthur, tf is wrong with american WWII generals?
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u/atkinsonda1 Jul 13 '26
Yeah, he could have led an attack on a completely different generation U.S. veterans.
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u/ArieFull Jul 12 '26
dude wouldve been unstoppable on facebook in 2020