For Americans, the war was experienced very much almost like a video game. It was on television, there was selected clips released of footage that was almost depicted like disembodied figures sitting around a screen blowing up and so forth. It wasn't really real flesh and blood: there wasn't smell, sound, feelings of conflict experienced directly. And the media played a very important role in actually proselytizing that image of war to the public. So that's still to this day how most how people think of war, they kind of think of it as distanced and in a video game.