Don Pappo, you totally miss Turnbull's point.

It does not come down to a matter of winning or losing a war.

When the USA got into WWII, it was for a just reason. Pearl Harbor, it's military and the Amercians had been attacked. The country and it's people were up in arms about being attacked the way that we were. Public support for getting into WWII was extremely high. Americans were gung ho in fighting those who attacked us. I think that it is safe to say that volunteer sign up for the military was probably very very high for WWII. So it was not as though the majority of the young men sho fought in WWII were forced to go to war.

With the Vietnam war, it was a bit different. The USA was not attacked, we were helping to fight a civil war. Many young men were forced to go to Vietnam, against their will.


So I think that it is safe to say that while there are mental problems in soldiers resulting from any war, in the case of Michael, being that it was WWII and he was gung ho in signing up, there was a very minimal mental affect on him from his fighting in that war.

If anything the war may have helped him in carrying out his "mission" of saving the family by taking out Sollozzo and eventually the heads of the other families.

So in the content of the lifestyle that he chose, his experience in WWII was probably a plus for him more than a negative.


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