It seems this revisionism is everywhere.
Take Saving Private Ryan for instance.
If you didn't know better, you might think the US Army was non-segregated in WWII, if you thought Vin Diesel was playing a character of mixed decent.
Also, you might think it was easy to be Jewish in the US Army in WWII.
Norman Mailer's "Naked and the Dead", and even Neil Simon's 'Biloxi Blues" portray a much more realistic picture of the realities of American Society in the 40's. And my father of course.
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