How did we get here?

The joy of the war ending was quickly met with the question, “What happens now?”

Sixteen million Americans – 11% of the population – served in the war. About eight million were overseas at the end. Their average age was 23. Within 18 months all but 1.5 million of them would be home and out of uniform.

And then what?

What were they going to do next?

Where were they going to work?

Where were they going to live?

How did we get here: to 2021, with so much negativity, despair, income gaps and a mountain of debt? Hint, you can blame it on war.

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