Chuck, I was only responding to the phrase "The Other side's View not to your post generally. That phrase reverberated in my head and I let loose with a generality. Being from our South I heard a lot about how bad them Yankeys were and how noble the Rebs, etc. Defeat is not accepted easily. The French call this complaining "Le esprit de l'escalier."
What you should have said to someone's face but only say it over your sholder as you are going down the stairs. I have only one overriding feeling about WWII which is that I'm glad we won! The price the world paid for that debacle is beyond willful comprehension just as comprehending the world today if we had not won is incomprehensible. Cheers! David