For a brief span after World War II, the country felt certain the worst was behind it and tomorrow would be better. That confidence was real, and it did not last.
Peace Was at Hand: The Few Short Years America Believed in Itself |
For a brief span after World War II, the country felt certain the worst was behind it and tomorrow would be better. That confidence was real, and it did not last. |
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News for the America we remember |
Used to be, for a few short years anyway, peace felt like something you could lay a hand on. |
Not perfect peace. Not the peace of saints and doves and the end of all trouble. The men coming home from the Pacific and Europe carried too much in their faces for that kind of innocence. They had seen islands burned bare, cities opened up, and boys their own age folded into the earth. But after V-J Day there was, in this country, a deep and almost physical feeling that the worst had happened and been survived, and that now the work would be to build, mend, marry, raise children, and keep the horror from coming back. |
I remember the stories older people told about those years. The train stations. The uniforms. The paper banners stretched across Main Street. Church bells. A factory changing from bomb casings to refrigerators. Men who had slept in mud and steel bunks stepping into kitchens that smelled of coffee and soap. The world was still damaged, but America seemed to believe its own hands were steady enough to repair some of it. |
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