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WWD changed lifestyles forever, historian says
By NAN PATTON EHRBRIGHT
THE SUN HERALD
? BAY ST. LOUIS ? Although nearly 50 million people were killed during World War II and trillions of dollars worth of property was destroyed, including irreplaceable artworks and monuments, Stephen E. Ambrose says the war was a ?boon? for millions of Americans.
The war, he says, shook the United States out of its past and shaped its future, leaving a legacy of changed lifestyles and habits ? many of which endure today.
?I wish to hell I?d been there,? said Ambrose, who was 10 when the war ended.
Perhaps that wish spurred the teacher-author-historian Ambrose to devote so much of his life to studying and writing about the war.
Ambrose, creator of the proposal for a National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, focused on America?s homefront during a recent talk to the Hancock County Historical Society.
?War provides more dislocations for women
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who stay at home than men who go off to war,? he said.	|
Wien Ambrose?s father, a small-town doctor | in Illinois, joined the Navy after Pearl Harbor, | his wife and children became ?camp followers.? |
?My sharpest memory is groaning at the sight ' of yet another plate of tunafish and noodles,? : Ambrose said.
Comparatively speaking, the United States J fared well during the war in terms of lost lives, damaged property and disruption of everyday i life.
?During the six-year war, no elections were held in Africa, Europe or the Middle East,? Ambrose said. ?America had two presidential, three congressional and hundreds of state elections. ?
War affected many things	'
Even so, Ambrose rattles off a list of changes related to the war effort:
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