In today’s world, it’s apparent that the number of people feeling pride towards their country or identifying with the values of their country has significantly decreased. Even the concept of nationalism is partially considered to be inherently destructive. It can be said that people’s rising distrust in the government has lead to a decrease in the favorability of holding feelings of nationalism, but many people don’t separate their government from their nation. As long as the people have the best interest for their country in mind, it doesn’t matter what the current government is like. National values should remain constant. During the 1940s, a time many consider to be the peak of nationalism in the world, people’s national pride was put to the test in one of the most well known conflicts to date. Two very different fronts of World War II, the Pacific front and the Eastern front in Europe, but both sides of soldiers shared very similar sentiments and scarring afterwards. In that sense, a country going to war is one of the most nationally unifying things that it could do. All of the men fighting were doing so for their country, or fighting because they had to, but even still there is a camaraderie stemming from being brothers in arms that can’t be matched. And despite each nation involved in the conflict standing for something different, the feelings of pride, determination, and fellowship to protect those standards led them through the struggles.