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Ken Burns's 'The War': an American Anthem

As a title, The War could refer to many things: the Civil War, World War I, Vietnam, Iraq. But for Americans who lived through the years from 1941 to 1945, it means just one thing — the Second World War, "the good war," "the big one," as Archie Bunker used to say.

Addressed to the war generation...

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