Reply #8: Some of us understand.

[murielm99]

The British, like so many other Europeans, thought it would be a nice little war. I remember one old Brit telling me that the thinkers of my generation had protested the Vietnam War, but the thinkers of his generation all enlisted during WWI. They felt strongly that it was the right thing to do.

So many died. Common men died. The cream of the aristocracy died. Noble houses went to second and third cousins, or went without an heir. A way of life was undermined as surely as if there had been a revolution. And many British people began to question the fabric of which their society was made.

Imagine then, WWII coming not that long after. We 20th and 21st century Americans have never felt the impact at home that the British have felt. Of course they are not the only ones, but we need to give it some thought.

War is indeed a racket!