I don’t know where you read in my response, anywhere, that I said anything whatsoever about whether we should or should not have been involved in WWII.
I do know at the time that sentiment ran AGAINST going to war in Europe 2 to 1 against. I know that FDR and Churchill allowed the Brits to help us set up the OSS, and I know that FDR knew Pearl Harbor was going to be bombed. I also know Churchill was desperate to get us into it on their side.
WWI was still an open wound, and Lindbergh, who was a US superstar was telling people we could live with Hitler at the time.
Now, these are facts.
That WWII was a just war doesn’t forgive our government from the manipulation that occurred in order to get us into it.
We know NOW about the holocaust. At the time, and in 1938, there wasn’t. All we knew was ‘Germany was at it again’. Spain was at war in 1930, even with WWI having happened 11 years earlier.
The RPP (Reasonably Prudent Person) might have come to the idea “I’m glad Dad left when he did. I want no part of what’s going on over there.”
There was no American Legion in WWI - men were allowed to keep their uniforms and they got a train ticket back to their home town. You lost a limb - those are the breaks.
Nobody, and I mean nobody, in the US was spoiling for a fight until December 7, 1941. Justification has nothing to do with it.
Even Patton was in the dark about it until he rolled into one of the camps, took all the civilians prisoner, made them file through, and filmed everything. I believe that was 1944, and summer.