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CMV: World War 2 is glorified in the US to an unhealthy degree

WW2 is thought by many Americans as a simple conflict between the Allies, who are always doing the right thing, and the faceless and evil Axis.  This creates the perception that WW2 was a great and honorable war.  It then becomes acceptable to glorify American involvement in WW2 to an unhealthy degree.

It seems that the majority of influential American media about WW2 portrays it as a glorious and really cool war that was only somewhat bad for the soldiers involved.  Alot of WW2 media says to the audience "war is hell" but then is essentially battle porn that talk about how great the Allies are.  There is little room for moral ambiguity or a disdain for war itself.  By contrast, other modern conflicts the United States has had significant involvement in such as World War 1, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Iraq War are portrayed in media as wars which the soldiers suffer and are permanently harmed by the war.  Alot of the media regarding WW1 and the Vietnam War focus on how war is destructive and immoral while this is rarely the case with WW2 media.  

I think the glorification of WW2 is harmful since it is often inaccurate and promotes war.
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>Alot of WW2 media says to the audience "war is hell" but then is essentially battle porn that talk about how great the Allies are.

This "battle porn" phenomenon is true of nearly all media representation of violence with possibly the sole exception of Jackson's *They Shall Not Grow Old.*

>By contrast, other modern conflicts the United States has had significant involvement in such as World War 1, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Iraq War are portrayed in media as wars which the soldiers suffer and are permanently harmed by the war.  Alot of the media regarding WW1 and the Vietnam War focus on how war is destructive and immoral while this is rarely the case with WW2 media.

How are you arriving at this conclusion? What media do you have in mind here? Have you ever watched *Saving Private Ryan?* 

>WW2 is thought by many Americans as a simple conflict between the Allies, who are always doing the right thing, and the faceless and evil Axis.

While this is absolutely a gross oversimplification of the horrors perpetrated on both sides... only *one* side engaged in systemic genocide against civillians, so as far as generalizations go it's not the worst one I've ever heard.