Most of you likely know a few people whose parents or grandparents fought in World War II. And hopefully, most of you also have voted in a variety of elections — from city hall to the state house to the White House.
Well, those two matters are connected, as the people who went to war were fighting for a pretty simple idea: democracy.
It wasn’t always seen that way, however. You see, before Pearl Harbor, there was significant opposition to the U.S. entering the war. There were many isolationist groups, among them the America First Committee, founded here in Connecticut at Yale University.
Once attacked at Pearl Harbor in 1941, however, the country unified almost overnight. President Franklin D. Roosevelt mobilized the nation to eliminate dictatorships in Germany, Italy and Japan. When peace was…
