>>>If their dream is to be a cog in a wheel, its not the American dream.
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>>It's nice of you to tell other Americans what they need to dream, but the last time I looked there was nothing in the constitution, the bill of rights or the declaration of independence that says that Mike Helland - or anyone else - gets to decide what the American dream is.
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>>Regarding cogs in wheels - during WWII over 100 million GI's became cogs and almost 500K of them died so that you can tell me that being a cog in a wheel is not the American dream.
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>2nd number could be, but 100 million is clearly wrong. If GI is meant Army exclusively, even more so. IIRC 2/3 were Army with a higher body count%.

Thomas - check here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

GI = Government Issue = any service.