We must remember that those brave men and women now known as "the greatest generation" came through the exact period depicted in these pictures, making their sacrifices for the "land of the free."
Those who survived went on to build the later period of growth and prosperity which so-called "progressives" now are destroying in their attempts to impose the ideas their ancestors fought against decades ago.
Your post is very true. My parents were the WWII generation. Luckily, they were city people - as Atticus Finch says: the crash hit the country folk hardest. My mother’s family survived by being policemen and employees of the NYC transit system. My father’s family did much worse. They went from living in a Harlem brownstone to a slum neighborhood in Brooklyn. Changed my father forever. But he still fought in the war and emerged a decent, hard-working man.