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Offline mitlen

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Re: Rolling Thunder
« Reply #625: June 07, 2019, 08:42:11 AM »
Those troops were coming out of the Great Depression.  The opportunity to do some truly worthwhile increased the courage and drive to succeed.


IMHO        That may be the initial/macro reason to sign up/drafted, etc.      In the end, it's the guy next to you that helps generate the courage and the drive to succeed, i.e. surviving.     Some sacrifice themselves for their "friends".     For the most part, I suspect the guys comin' out of the Higgins or in the Ardennes were thinkin' about themselves and their buddies.   They were interested in defeating that enemy soldier/unit and not defeating the Third Reich per se.    I hesitate to bring this up on the internet because I don't want this taken as a troll point or an attempt to counter your point.       It's just my opinion on a subject that's probably been talked about in every war.