[LarryLied]

The liberalism of many WWII vets is understandable (unlike current liberals). Some were dirt poor. They had never seen a dentist and only rarely a doctor. Didn't have many clothes and food was scarce. When they joined the military it was a miracle to them. Food, doctors, new clothes, jeeps to drive, many saw their first dentist. There was wealth they had never imagined. On top of that, we won the war. Government worked for that generation.

No surprise that when the became civilians they thought the Feds could solve almost any problem.

[Little Bill]

Some were dirt poor.

I can understand the above, wht about those of us that were poor through circumstance.

In the Intermountian West the depression hit about four years before the general depression, noone ever felt poor. The attude was, things happen we are still together.

I have never been able to understand obsession of people with the deprression, my Grandmothers Family lost all in the panic of 1892 and we survived, there were 20 children, noone said it is all over I'm going to die..