>>>>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%.
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>Thomas - check here.
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
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>GI = Government Issue = any service.

quick check: US population 1940: 130 million,
>"100 million GI's became cogs... is not the American dream." reduced the set to US military.
Quick ggogling gives estimates ~12milion in service, 8million Army Update: had not Air Force count in my check /Update