We both remember something others forget or gloss over - The very effective firebombing of over a hundred cities. See #43
They probably don’t even know about the firebombing of Japan’s cities.
Some of us grew up surrounded by the vets of WWII and we tend to take the events of that war as common knowledge. But someone now in college would have been born around the time of the first Gulf War and they weren’t glued to a black and white television watching Victory at Sea.