Everything I know about World War II, I learned from ____________?

School and movies.

books, movies, and my History teachers.

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Grandparents, great aunts and uncles, in laws, and parents and grandparents of friends who fought in it, textbooks, documentaries, movies of the period, newsreels, magazines of the period, stories in Good Old Days magazine when I was a kid, written by people who'd lived through it.

When I was a kid, most veterans of that war were in their forties and fifties. Some weren't even forty yet. I was born less than 20 years after the end of the war. Everyone had had some part in it. Even if they weren't active duty military, they'd worked in a war-time factory, farmed, served as a black out warden, led scrap drives, had some part in the war effort. You could ask the guys who ran the gas station down the block and they were in it. You could ask the lunch ladies in the school cafeteria, and they likely had met trains of soldiers with trays of sandwiches. My next door neighbor right now, who is 84, served in the Coast Guard riding a calvary horse 17 miles a night looking for signs of submarines landing on the Delmarva peninsula. I've been steeped in it all my life. All my male relations of that generation, including my father-in-law fought in that war. The only exception was my grandfather who was missing a kidney and 4f. He served as a black-out warden.
I had relatives in the D-day invasion. I had relatives island hopping in the Pacific theater. I had a step-grandfather who died in the Battle of the Bulge. Obviously, I never knew him. My stepfather had never known him. But I heard every detail of his service. Everyone of that generation that I knew could tell you exactly where they were and what they were doing when they got the news that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor.