During WWII, American culture became indistinguishable from war propaganda. If judged by how much invasiveness they tolerated from their government, the WWII generation was not the greatest, but one of the worst.
The caption to the above picture reads:
May 22, 1944 Life Magazine Picture of the Week, “Arizona war worker writes her Navy boyfriend a thank-you-note for the Jap skull he sent her”
“War is the health of the state.” ~Randolph Bourne