Well before my time, yet tears streaming. Unfortunately the Greatest Generation didn’t teach their young well. They are the long grey haired freaks pretending to teach their Grand Children about right and wrong.
I think the problem is these hardened WWII and depression era veterans and their equally hard working wives wanted to make things easy for their children. They did not realize the hard times they went through is what made them tough and in some sense, good.
Also the end of WWII coincided with Marxists taking control of the country just as McCarthy said. they did it without the average American even knowing it.
Lt. Joseph Rochefort, along with his OP-20-G cryptanalyst colleagues in Hawaii, made a major contribution to the success at Midway.