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soldiers don't start wars, politicians do. no matter if you agree with a war or not, respect those that go and sacrifice their lives so that you don't have to. the majority of them don't want to be there either, nobody knows the horror of war better than a soldier.
The problem with people born after WW2 is that the majority of them have never really have their freedom threatened so they don't properly respect those willing to sacrifice their lives to defend it. WW2 was the last war that had grave consequences if we lost and also wasn't an easy win. Yes, now historians believe that there was no way Hitler could have won the war, but put yourself in occupied Europe in 1940 before he made all those poor military decisions, or put yourself in America shortly after Pearl Harbor when the war in the Pacific wasn't going well. People who were alive then know what it was like to have your freedom threatened, they knew what would happen if Germany was allowed to win the war in Europe so they respected the sacrifices made by millions of young people to make sure that didn't happen.
Funny that a lot of the people who take this shit for granted would have fallen into one of the groups targeted by Hitler for ethnic cleansing.
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