Let us not forget that the American war effort was first and foremost a patriotic war. American citizens believed in their country and its values and how drastically opposed to the message of hope that American offered Hitler was. Now there are those that looked at American involvement in WWII and say how can America fight for freedom when it does not even have total freedom, as set up by the constitution, for all of its citizens. Appoints of the war cite the racial intolerance of that time as a reason that the us has no right on its own to fight any adversary based on moral grounds. How can we relate Hitler’s butchering 6,000,000 Jews and millions others to the racial intolerance of the US, despite the lynching and the demeaning of some minorities. To compare these crimes and set them equal is not only an insult to those who where massacred by Hitler, but also no excuse for keeping America out of a fight with true just and moral causes. The people of the home front knew of and understood the danger of ignoring these threats, and believed that the united states of America with all its drawbacks and blemishes had the best system of government, the most potential for growth and the best chance of any nation to stand true to these famous words, “one nation under God in divisible with liberty and justice for
Let us not forget that the American war effort was first and foremost a patriotic war. American citizens believed in their country and its values and how drastically opposed to the message of hope that American offered Hitler was. Now there are those that looked at American involvement in WWII and say how can America fight for freedom when it does not even have total freedom, as set up by the constitution, for all of its citizens. Appoints of the war cite the racial intolerance of that time as a reason that the us has no right on its own to fight any adversary based on moral grounds. How can we relate Hitler’s butchering 6,000,000 Jews and millions others to the racial intolerance of the US, despite the lynching and the demeaning of some minorities. To compare these crimes and set them equal is not only an insult to those who where massacred by Hitler, but also no excuse for keeping America out of a fight with true just and moral causes. The people of the home front knew of and understood the danger of ignoring these threats, and believed that the united states of America with all its drawbacks and blemishes had the best system of government, the most potential for growth and the best chance of any nation to stand true to these famous words, “one nation under God in divisible with liberty and justice for