I was 5 years old in 1957 and WW2 seemed like yesterday, just because so many of the men who were at church every Sunday with their families had been there, including a tail gunner, and a guy with a prosthetic leg, and so much of programming like "The 20th Century" with Walter Cronkite was so focused on WW2. And a few years later in 1962, playing baseball in an organized league, the league was sponsored by the Legion, I think that you guys call it the VFW. And compared to today there was not much bullying in elementary school in the late 1950's and early 1960's but I can tell you this for sure, there was one kid at the school of recent immigrant German ancestry and he was bullied very severely.
So, I am here to say that in the 1950's, in my neighbourhood, the war was still immediate. It was not a distant memory, not at all.