Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘The Best Years of Our Lives’: Unseen Battles, Uncelebrated Victories

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PG | 2h 50min | Drama | 1946

The Veterans Administration (VA) estimated that, in the late 1940s, about one-tenth of America’s population and a fifth of its workforce were veterans of World War II. For the next quarter of a century, America would depend on that beleaguered group of about 20 million (as large as present day New York) to raise families and pay bills and taxes.

Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
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