For the holiday: "Is World War II Still ‘the Good War’?"

There is far too much of interest in Adam Kirsch's esssay from yesterday's Sunday Book Review at the New York Times, so I'll merely provide the link and isolate one paragraph.

Is World War II Still ‘the Good War’?

... Indeed, the best of the new World War II histories can be seen as attempts to give us, in the year 2011, a more authentic and complete sense of what the war was actually like to those fighting it.