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To: ManyMoose who wrote (102215)	4/28/2005 11:02:01 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

I think almost all Americans have enormous respect for the sacrifices our men and women in uniform made in World War II. I have never met anyone--the most strident hippie anti-war protesters, even--who did not feel that World War II was a necessary war. It must have been a very difficult time to be young. My father and all the men he knew fought in the war, and my mother, who was a few years younger and not married to him then, suffered the death of several boyfriends in battle during the war. Everyone in America sacrificed and pitched in in every way they could, enduring rationing, growing victory gardens, etc. It is really too bad that there wasn't a similar spirit in America over the Iraq war (which may say something about whether the war was justified, in my opinion). The government telling everyone to keep on spending their consumer dollars (and driving gas-guzzling vehicles) was not a very satisfying way to bring the nation together at all.