Column: Wars change, but Americans haven't
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Everyone born after 1945 ought to spend a day at the National World War II Museum, one of this city’s major accomplishments since Katrina left us wondering whether it was over for this cosmopolitan gem on the banks of the Mississippi. The museum honors the “last good war” fought by what some historians call the “greatest generation.”
Encompassing several acres in the old downtown warehouse district a few blocks from the iconic French Quarter, this enterprise is a stirring documentation of how 132 million Americans literally saved the free world during World War II. For those of us who were alive but not of an age to fight, the memories of scrap drives, rationing, war bonds and tears for loved ones came flooding back.
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