{"id":39471,"date":"2019-09-06T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T05:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=39471"},"modified":"2019-09-05T08:42:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T12:42:15","slug":"qotd-the-horrors-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/09\/06\/qotd-the-horrors-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The horrors of war"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s no point in pretending that war isn&#8217;t horrible &mdash; flag-draped coffins are, in fact, a rather pristine symbol of those horrors. There&#8217;s a good reason societies honor their warriors.<\/p>\n<p>An aside: I&#8217;ve long thought that prettifying World War II for domestic consumption contributed to both the media shock of Vietnam and the generation gap. WWII and Korea vets, who knew war first-hand, didn&#8217;t understand just how shocked their doted-on boomer kids were. &#8220;The Good War&#8221; wasn&#8217;t any more pleasant when you were experiencing it.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Postrel, <a href=\"https:\/\/vpostrel.com\/blog\/2004\/04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Horrors of War&#8221;, <em>Dynamist.com<\/em><\/a>, 2004-04-27.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no point in pretending that war isn&#8217;t horrible &mdash; flag-draped coffins are, in fact, a rather pristine symbol of those horrors. There&#8217;s a good reason societies honor their warriors. An aside: I&#8217;ve long thought that prettifying World War II for domestic consumption contributed to both the media shock of Vietnam and the generation gap. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28,5,41,13,230],"tags":[407,262,281,585],"class_list":["post-39471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-media","category-military","category-quotations","category-usa","category-ww2","tag-babyboomers","tag-culture","tag-koreanwar","tag-vietnam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-agD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50840,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39471\/revisions\/50840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}