Worry isn't quite the word for it. There were many reasons to be pessimistic. We were very unready in 1941 when it was thrust upon us, with mountains of problems to be solved and deaths to be mourned. It was just something everyone had to deal with. But we were never going to surrender. It was more an attitude that we were going to do whatever we could to win, with no one really able to predict the outcome. It was late '44 before one sensed the tide was turning in our favor. But the lists of dead and wounded kept coming and coming.
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