Word: unreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy casualty list, published this week, showed that 2,317 Americans had been killed, wounded or missing from April 16 to May 10. To most of the U.S. the curt, dry list of names brought no shock. The war was still far away, bloodless, unreal, fought abroad by unknown...
...People Speak. To such families, the war was neither unreal nor bloodless. To them, Memorial Day had a fresh meaning. In the little towns, where everyone knew the boys off fighting and the homes now broken, the editors of weekly news papers spun the real story of the war. This was no sophisticated writing such as the military experts' speculations, or Government pressagents' idea of morale, or dry with the necessary callousness of communiques. But their writing told what the people were learning, with a mixture of grief and pride and anger...
...changed was a U.S. state of mind almost as old as the Republic. Before Pearl Harbor there was only one world to U.S. citizens. The world, the only world that Americans believed in or cared about, was the U.S. The rest of mankind was in an American sense, unreal. The American might-and did-throng the tourist spots like London and Paris, "discover" Bali or the Dalmatian Coast, but he could never quite believe that these outlandish foreign parts could have a real connection with his world...
...whole thing was as unreal as a printed poster, while the voice of TIME dinned in my ears: . . . It was now plain that the U.S. could count on no other country to do her fighting for her. Henceforth the U.S. would have to decide and act for herself...
...speaker was finished, and the last wreath had been placed on the tomb of the newer Unknown Soldier. The bugler was sounding taps as Vag, shivering a bit from the damp which had penetrated his light reversible, left the enlarged Arlington National Cemetery. Outside it all seemed so unreal--Vag wondered if he had had a vision of the future or a nightmare of the past...