Perhaps the fascination is because of the personal conflict of the war that the earlier class fought in. And it remains the war with the largest US casualty count.
Not near as much conflict against a leader committing mass genocide and taking over Europe little by little, whose allies then attacked us directly.
After all, what fame is there from freeing nations and entire peoples, when you can later go on to burn parts of your own country with impunity or commit genocide on a race much closer to home?
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