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Many of them have a "bandwagon" sort of feel to them. Nobody wanted to be left out, you didn't get government money if you were not onboard.

One thing I remember is many of the WWII generation talking about how they didn't support the war and didn't want a part of it.

It was a huge propaganda effort, basically they told people "Everyone else supports it." when the reality is very few actually supported our being in WW1 or WW2.

A few small town newspapers had the courage to print the truth in the beginning, but they were threatened and shut up pretty fast. I heard about this from one editor and a reporter in a town some 600 miles from the editor that worked for a totally different paper.

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