Odysseus suffering and labored harder than anyone else, and he doesn't even get a glorious death—just an embarrassing disappearance. Is it all worth it when he returns at the end?
Because growing tobacco also required a lot of hard work and labor, more people (human resources) were needed to work in the fields. ... It didn't take the colonists long to realize that economic specialization would be the way to go, and tobacco became a cash crop for the colony.
Americans were unfamiliar with the territories of Vietnam and ended up having to search manually, house by house, allowing the Viet Cong to dig escape tunnels and snipe American soldiers.
Yes, total war meant that everything is geared towards the war effort.
Men are leaving to join the military
Women goes to factories to work, and cut back on using products needed by the military
Children go around raising funds for the military
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