He enlisted after pearl harbor. He was in school, and took about a year to get him, to call them up. Just before he left, he married his wife, married for the next 65 years. So when he was in the illusion, they were about the soldiers, they were about to invade japan, the final big push. The estimate was that the army would lose up to 1 million men. So when the bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki, Charlton Heston was overjoyed. Even though that was a very controversial move, marshall as the years went by, that kind of cemented his political point of view. For the world war ii is over, the greatest generation men and women, there was a very clear delineation between right and wrong. And between good and bad. They all felt that they were the good guys, the whole generation, and all felt quite clearly that the japanese, the germans, all the axis powers, where the bad guys. All of that kind of black and white definition of war, good, evil, all of that fell into his acting career.
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